RFC 8766: Discovery Proxy for Multicast DNS-Based Service Discovery
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
This document specifies a network proxy that uses Multicast DNS to automatically populate the wide-area unicast Domain Name System namespace with records describing devices and services found on the local link.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC8766
- Published
- June 2020
- Authors
- S. Cheshire
- Status
- PROPOSED STANDARD
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- int
- Pages
- 33
- Also known as
- —
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