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Date:      Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:01:12 -0700
From:      "Kelly Jones" <kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Publishing information via DNS
Message-ID:  <26face530812170701n4160dba2ve183d8860b6d4a69@mail.gmail.com>

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Has anyone tried publishing non-DNS information via DNS? Advantages:

 % Automatic distributed caching on various nameservers.

 % UDP, so no TCP overhead

I know SPF uses this, and clamav publishes their current version
number this way, but has anyone done this on a large scale basis?

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