Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-tcpm-undeployed-03.txt> (Moving Outdated TCP

On Tue, 05 Jan 2016 16:51:09 -0800, Joe Touch said:

> This sounds like an opportunity for SGI to shift over to DNS-SD.
>
> We can change the line about "no known" to "only one known". We could
> refer to DNS-SD going to PS as a rationale for obsoleting TCPMUX if
> necessary, IMO.
Not a really good fit. In general, you already *know* the hostname that
has the service - it's the host you have the NFS mount from, or the current
CXFS metadata server if you're inside the cluster. And trying to use DNS-SD
for two logically distinct DMF archives is just *looking* for trouble.

It would be a much better fit for portmapper actually (although that would
involve leaving a daemon running to answer/forward queries - probably not as
big an issue today as it was when they started coding DMF almost 25 years ago).

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