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17/11/2005

DISCOVER: Supporting Multicast DNS Queries

	draft-manning-opcode-discover-02.txt
	Date:	17/11/2005
	Authors:	Bill Manning, Paul Vixie
	Working Group:	Individual Submissions (none)
	Formats:	txt

This document describes the DISCOVER opcode, an experimental extension to the Domain Name System (DNS) to use multicast queries for resource discovery. A client multicasts a DNS query using the DISCOVER opcode and processes the multiple responses that may result.