Talk:Peer Name Resolution Protocol

So could this be implemented by other people or is M$ the only ones allowed to use the protocol? The bellman 09:14, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

They've patented it so only MS can use it in the US, but no one else needs it. BTW: My first thought after reading the articule was: "Oh so they've finally got the netbios name service to work properly, only took them 20 years". 86.16.135.53 09:21, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Why does no one else need to use it? No one else outside the US or no one outside of MS? Is there a comparable solution for Linux and the Mac? Mk2337 05:34, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

is zeroconf/Avahi comparable to this?--72.40.148.147 17:13, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

The article doesn't mention the most important: what is this used for? Does this provide name resolution or DNS in a LAN ? If I have 3 computers on my network and want to share files between them, can I use this instead of hosts.txt(static IP's) or port 137(dynamic IP's) ? (supposing the computers have an IPv6 stack)

purpose

What on earth is the purpose of this protocol? A IP6 LAN decentralized name resolver (replacing WINS)? Or a Layer 5/6 OSI Model protocol/API for easily creating DHT swarms of any data/purpose?Patcat88 (talk) 14:00, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Its not a generic DHT API, though it rather uses a DHT-like structure for storing the name/address/hash mappings. Rather think of it as a service registry without any centralized server (technically it can be used as a registry for any resource, not just service endpoints). You can use it for WINS like name resolution - have file servers register their names and addresses in PNRP and clients query the address via PNRP. Or you can use it like Bonjour-like zeroconf service discovery - have services register their addresses and some metadata via PNRP and have clients issue PNRP queries. Or you can even use it for applications like IM or games - have these applications register the address and who is available on the address via PNRP and others can have than information via PNRP resolutions. PNRP gives you a very important tool to enable all these scenarios. But it isn't an end to end solution. All these scenarios will need a significant amount of custom coding. --soum ^talk 14:14, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

One more thing, it is not just limited to the LAN, you can configure it to scale out over the internet. But considering a n log n lookup time, you better not try peering with someone on the other side of the continent. --soum ^talk 14:18, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Please have a look at Justin Smith's interesting article on MSDN. I added the link and hope it will help to understand what's PNPR is. Windows 7 "homegroup" feature seems to heavily rely on PNPR and so it might be desirable to develop some basic understanding. HTH:-) Sigrid 82.139.211.39 (talk) 13:16, 6 February 2009 (UTC)