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List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Re: Networkhood file system
From:       Jauder Ho <jauderho () transmeta ! com>
Date:       1998-08-31 23:37:07
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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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