Re: Using DNS for SSM

[Beau Williamson <bwilliam@cisco.com>]

At 05:13 PM 2/15/2001, Dino Farinacci wrote:
>>> My reading of Toerless's message was that he was questioning the "need" at 
>>> least as much as the "urgency".
>
>    Here's a basic need which I think would make managing multicast networks
>    one step easier:
>
>        mtrace radio.example.com
>
>>> As Toerless noted, knowing a SSM channel address (S,G) alone doesn't tell 
>>> you much.  In order to be able to usefully receive the session, you still 
>
>    Right, so what's your point. Did you think the DNS was suppose to solve 
>    that?
>
>    It's hard enough to remember source and group addresses when debugging
>    problems in the network infrastructure without adding any more issues
>    to the problem statement.
>
>    Just the fact a network operator can ask over the phone, "what are you
>    trying to get to and who are you?", and the answer is radio.example.com and
>    customer.broken-dsl.com, would allow the netadmin to do:
>
>        mtrace radio.example.com customer.broken-dsl.com
>
>    would go a long way to isolating problems from the NOC.

Boy, this sort of thing would have come in handy in the past.  This has merit.

Beau Williamson