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From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Cc: David Schinazi <dschinazi.ietf@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [musl] mDNS in musl
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2024 11:45:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH8yC8nk=e2rkCaq73an0rp4_4m+M+gZRuxijrjfbZesEutsgg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240306161544.GH4163@brightrain.aerifal.cx>

On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 11:15 AM Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 11:29:03PM -0800, David Schinazi wrote:
> >  [...]
> > Some more info on mDNS: all names that end in ".local" are reserved for use
> > by mDNS, and instead of sending them to the DNS resolver, they're sent
> > locally over multicast - and the machine with that name replies with its IP
> > address. It's used today to discover printers and pretty much everything in
> > home networks.
>
> Last I checked, .local is not actually reserved by any relevant
> specification/authority. It was basically just appropriated by mDNS.

It looks like IANA reserves it, and cites RFC 6762,
<https://www.iana.org/assignments/special-use-domain-names/special-use-domain-names.xhtml>.

Jeff

  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-06 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-06  7:29 David Schinazi
2024-03-06 16:15 ` Rich Felker
2024-03-06 16:45   ` Jeffrey Walton [this message]
2024-03-07  0:17   ` David Schinazi
2024-03-07  2:43     ` Rich Felker
2024-03-07 22:50       ` David Schinazi
2024-03-08  0:08         ` Rich Felker
2024-03-08  1:30           ` David Schinazi
2024-03-08  2:06             ` David Schinazi
2024-03-08  2:52             ` Rich Felker
2024-03-08  3:34               ` David Schinazi
2024-03-08  3:47                 ` Rich Felker
2024-03-08  4:47                   ` David Schinazi
2024-03-08 13:31                     ` Rich Felker
2024-03-08 19:15                       ` David Schinazi
2024-03-08 20:31                         ` Rich Felker
2024-03-08 21:55                           ` David Schinazi
2024-03-08 22:54                             ` Rich Felker
2024-03-08 23:44                               ` David Schinazi
2024-03-21  9:21                                 ` David Schinazi
2024-03-21 12:07                                   ` Rich Felker
2024-03-21 13:50                                     ` David Schinazi
2024-03-21 17:45                                       ` Luca Barbato
2024-03-21 19:35                                       ` Rich Felker
2024-03-22  0:10                                         ` David Schinazi
2024-03-22  0:29                                           ` Tomas Volf
2024-03-22  0:36                                             ` David Schinazi
2024-03-22  0:38                                             ` Rich Felker
2024-03-09  0:23                               ` Jeffrey Walton
2024-03-08 15:31     ` Markus Wichmann
2024-03-08 17:22       ` Rich Felker
2024-03-06 16:15 ` Markus Wichmann

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