Mobility through naming: impact on dns

  • Authors:
  • R. Atkinson;S. Bhatti;S. Hailes

  • Affiliations:
  • Extreme Networks, RTP, NC, USA;University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom;University College London, London, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Mobility in the evolving internet architecture
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

An Identifier/Locator addressing scheme can enable a new approach to mobile hosts and mobile networks. Identifier and Locator information is stored in Domain Name System (DNS) Resource Records. In our on-going work using the Identifier-Locator Network Protocol (ILNP), the DNS would be updated with new Locator values as hosts and/or networks move; new sessions would obtain the correct Locator(s) for a mobile host and/or mobile network from the DNS, in much the same way as currently happens for IP address resolution. However, this use of the DNS is not currently required for IP mobility. We examine the potential impact on DNS from using a naming approach to mobility.