RE: Reality Check and Ideas

Justin R. Erenkrantz (justin nospam at erenkrantz.com)
Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:39:33 -0800

>From my understanding of what has been said (I'm not a DNS guru):

> 1) How do us corporate geeks behind corporate firewalls that do NOT
> pass DNS queries through handle using DNS for this?

It has been mentioned that a DNS->HTTP proxy would be relatively easy to
code. Do I know this for a fact? Hell no. ;-)

> 2) How do entries actually get _submitted_. Not propagated, that's
> blatantly obviously, but SUBMITTED in a reasonable labor-free
> manner?

My thoughts exactly. DNS is primarily based on flat files distributed over
a large number of computers. But, I'm sure someone can answer this. Maybe
a HTTP page to submit the results?? Seems like a clunkiness...

The best thing DNS has going for it (AFAIK) is the replication and server
code is already done and working. But, we need to hash out this protocol
and server storage issue before we can move on (DNS/HTTP and DNS/RDBMS).

Love your sig (I've yet to see someone other than me write out 1999 - most
humans have their own Y2K bug!),
Justin