Re: Reality Check and Ideas
Tim P. Gerla (timg nospam at means.net)
Tue, 9 Mar 1999 17:26:14 -0600
On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 03:10:14PM -0800, August Zajonc wrote:
> Uh oh... The KISS people are getting into the Second System Effect, just
> like the guy on the IT comittee here who suggested we throw out our fibre
> optic switched ethernet for cablemodems to some cable company somewhere...
>
> Folks, a db backend and an HTTP/XML frontend is not only not complicated, it
> is easy to implement for us programers... There are countless little widgets
> that can do http stuff for every development platform...
>
> Doing DNS is well, stupid :) There is little flexibility, how do you submit
> updates (another mechanisim will have to be built anways...) and a whole
> host of ther problems... Youch... Each DNS record contains ALL the fields,
> we'll be passing back gigs before we know it? With an http query different
> results could be returned (cover art or not etc...)
>
Like I said, I don't know enough about DNS to answer that. But I have faith
it won't be a problem/
> Before people post with brand new ideas, perhaps they could point out the
> flaws in the current ideas that the idea seeks to fix, and what improvments
> lie ahead. Remeber, future flexibilty is key, simplicity is jey (plenty of
> people can host a cgi script for http lookups, how many can provide DNS
> servers, and all that entails?)
>
Nothing si stopping us from having a DNS->HTTP gateway. Anyone who can run
an HTTP server can run a DNS server.
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-Tim
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