Comment on What is the deal with IPv6?
PaintedSnail@lemmy.world 5 days agoWithout a central server, hostname resolution is handled with mDNS. It is designed to do exactly what you’re asking: allow you to resolve hostnames to IP addresses without a DNS server. A node simply broadcasts (multicasts) a request for who has a name, and whichever node has it responds with their IP.
Randelung@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Whenever I’ve come across mDNS it was unstable and not installed. Bonjour was distributed with iTunes and sucked (15y ago). I could see mDNS supplying additional info for a configuration tool, but the IP layer remains reliant on IPs.
What bugs me is that IPv6 has built-in neighbor discovery that almost does what mDNS does, which could just have included a hostname… It’s a replacement for ARP and only ARP.