Re: Distributed DB's bad idea...
Alan Cox (alan nospam at redhat.com)
Tue, 9 Mar 1999 18:31:59 -0500 (EST)
> Where do CD players connect to? People have suggested trying primary than
> going through all the distibuted DB's and the like. As a software author, I
> can tell you I want to hit ONE server, get a couple of reponses IF needed
> (sometime just head will sufice) and be done. Spending 20 minutes goin
You want to hit one server that was configured in advance, is near you and
has the current trendy CDROM's in cache ?
>From the CD point of view everyone want
struct cd_info *foo=find_me_this_cd(blah)
and not to ask the user what database, what site, what is nearest.
Thats DNS. The ISP set it up for you 8)