From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>
> But if it 'knows' which of two nodes claiming a name is the correct
> one, then it must have been preconfigured in a way that wouldn't
> have required listening to the broadcast in the first place. How
> does centralizing the service help resolve a conflict correctly?
Via several options:
1. First and foremost, those naming conventions
2. Reserved MAC address for blocks of the IP subnet
3. Historical MAC address assignment of the name/IP
4. Digital signatures of the client (both BIND 9 and
reverse engineered ADS-DNS)
These is just some of many approaches that can _only_ be accomplished
in an unified layer 2 + layer 3 server.
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Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx
