Re: Reality Check and Ideas

Alan Cox (alan nospam at redhat.com)
Tue, 9 Mar 1999 19:24:48 -0500 (EST)

> transmit diffs. Heck, even using rsync to transmit the zone files
> would work better than using the DNS zone transfer. And I _want_ to be
> able to mirror the whole database, not just some subdomain of it.
>
> But the strongest argument in my eyes is that there's again some
> central server.

There is always a central point. Its either a keyserver or a replication
server. The issue is also completely bogus. There are _thousands_ of
people with copies of older cddb data sets, on CD whatever. The license makes
the difference not the posession. You make the license and the policy require
publishing the CD data

> Use some more bits than 32, or you'll get collisions due to the
> birthday paradoxon. But I agree that works for accessing the
> information.

You can just mark collisions and do further queries by MD5 hash if need be