From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 23 20:52:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA18909 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 23 Jun 1996 20:52:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA18890 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 1996 20:51:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id NAA19963; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 13:56:33 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199606240426.NAA19963@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Dynamically Allocatable Name Service (DANS) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 13:56:32 +0930 (CST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <8709.835583510@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 23, 96 07:31:50 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > > I understand what can be done. Rocket and bike analogies just makes it > > sound like name serving is a trivial exercise. > > It's also already in the works - he needs to read the RFCs (I sent > this on to Paul Vixie who was quite amused). I'm actually amazed that anyone actually took it seriously. It seemed to me from a cursory scan of what he had to say that almost no serious thought about the size of the database, or the enormous amount of traffic that it would create had taken place. And then there's the _very_ revealing cc: list in the message header 8) > Jordan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[