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Re: Summary of the LLMNR Last Call

2005-09-19 23:25:34
We agree that home burglary is a serious problem.  This is why we
recommend that everyone hire an armed guard for their house.  If your
house is monitored by armed guards, burglary is very unlikely.  Given that
there is an effective security mechanism available, there's really no need
to consider simple deterrants that won't provide true security.

Not sure what this has to do with a link-scope resolution protocol 
supporting  name partitioning and DNSSEC.  LLMNR provides a simple 
deterrant in the case where security is available -- restricting the names 
for which queries are sent.  This is *exactly* the same mechanism used by 
mDNS. 

by it that are too useful to completely dismiss in general.  That being
said, most systems attempt to avoid using those features when feasible and
attempt to make all sources of information match exactly 

The NetBIOS and DNS names spaces have coexisted for more than two decades 
without requiring exact matches, because they do not overlap.  Similarly, 
"exact matches" can be ensured via security schemes such as DNSSEC while 
permitting overlapping name spaces.  So "exact matches" are neither 
sufficient nor necessary. 

*Both* the mDNS and LLMNR specifications agree on this point. The only 
difference 
is that mDNS uses ".local" for partioning, while it is suggested (but not 
required) 
that LLMNR implementations use single-label names. 

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