Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:37:07 -0700 (PDT) | From | Jauder Ho <> | Subject | Re: Networkhood file system |
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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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