Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by KaiserPro 54 days ago
> Nobody asked for that.

I mean thats not true. SLAAC is great for public/untrusted networks where you just let the clients figure that shit out.

the only thing thats a bummer is not being able to map DNS records to addresses, which is kinda the point, for privacy.
1 comments
kazen44 54 days ago
this is still kind of possible, by doing neighbour discovery and querying the host for its hostname with mdns.

In my opinion, this automatic mapping of DNS names to addresess is not part of the IP protocol, and shouldn't be.

link
simoncion 53 days ago
> ...mdns

"use MDNS for name resolution" works until your machine is reattached to your LAN and your MDNS server thinks your hostname is "in use" and sticks a "-N" at the end of it to "avoid hostname collisions". Though, it might just be Avahi that has this particular bit of brain damage... I haven't paid attention to the behavior of the Macs that I've been obligated to use over the years.

Few people are more sad about this behavior than I am.

link