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SubjectRe: Networkhood file system

On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:

> Contrariwise, AFS doesn't broadcast at all. It can't: can you imagine
> broadcasting to populate root.afs? Polling the entire Internet to find
> cells scattered all over the world? But AFS is on a different level, and it
> is definitely not suitable for peering arrangements involving many smaller
> systems.

hmm. I didn't intend to imply that AFS broadcasts. As you said, it
is on a different layer. CellServDB still needs to be distributed somehow
but that's it.

> | Building this on top of DNS is iffy. DNS is convulated enough
> | without tacking on another data type but I guess with DDNS and maybe a
> +--->8
>
> Take a look at MIT's HESIOD --- which is already supported by standard BIND.
> Defining a new "table" is trivial, and combined with DDNS would probably
> serve. This implies that a modified DHCP would be used for registration
> services, saving network traffic if you do it in the same transaction where
> you assign an address lease. (And DHCP is already extensible as well.
> Heck, on OS/2 one can extend it by editing a REXX script.)

I haven't looked at Hesiod much but that could be doable.

--Jauder


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