Re: [9fans] Interested in improving networking in Plan 9

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

> I think there are a few issues beyond will it scale - of course with
> 128k nodes scaling is a baseline prereq for us.  On BG we have a
> segmented network to deal with -- but it's likely you'll want some
> form of hierarchy regardless.
>
> I have done much with dynamic service registry using DNS in plan 9 -
> maybe it's easy and just not well documented.

i'm sure there are.

could you explan why you're focused on dns?
a more natural way to use plan 9 would be to use
ndb and cs directly.  wouldn't it?

by the way, ndb/cs is already a program that
replaces a static file.  why couldn't you use
it to do these interesting lookups?  it already
has some specialized knowledge of protocols.
it seems like the place for these things.

i've probablly just given away my vast ignorance.
please set me straight.  :-)

- erik