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Date:      Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:04:15 -0700
From:      "Kelly Jones" <kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com>
To:        "Matthew Seaman" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Publishing information via DNS
Message-ID:  <26face530812171804m5f16c45i90d2fe07e0861c72@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4949345F.9040309@infracaninophile.co.uk>
References:  <26face530812170701n4160dba2ve183d8860b6d4a69@mail.gmail.com> <4949345F.9040309@infracaninophile.co.uk>

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On 12/17/08, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
> Kelly Jones wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>
> Read all about 'Hesiod' at a search engine near you.  No, not the
> Greek poet... the other hesiod.

Hesiod is interesting, but the Wikipedia article suggests its used for
small local networks. I'm thinking of globally DNS-casting data.

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