Zeroconfig and Multicast DNS

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

>>>>> On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:42:29 -0500, 
>>>>> Brooks Davis <brooks at one-eyed-alien.net> said:

>> Um...I'm not sure if this is even possible. Let's forget mDNS and
>> go back to basic IP.
>> Say a multi-homed host has two interfaces both configured with an
>> address in the rage 169.254/16, say 169.254.1.1 and 169.254.2.1 and
>> it wants to initiate a connection to 169.254.3.1, how on earth should
>> it be able to tell on which side 3.1 is located? There might even be
>> one 3.1 on both side that could be completely different hosts.

> You probably would need an extension similiar to the one for IPv6 LLAs.
> i.e. the %bge0 in fe80::2e0:81ff:fe31:9f00%bge0.

(I've not followed the discussion closely, so my apologize in advance
if this message reacts to an off-topic.)

Note that the '%bge0' notation works well thanks to the sin6_scope_id
field of the sockaddr_in6{} structure.  Since sockaddr_in{} doesn't
have such an additional member to solve the ambiguity, the extension
to the IPv4 addresses would not be that trivial.

					JINMEI, Tatuya
					Communication Platform Lab.
					Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
					jinmei at isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp