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From: Marc Boschma <marc@boschma.cx>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] bonjour mDNS?
Date: Sat,  2 Jan 2016 20:59:14 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D3EDE976-F86E-46A9-9847-A5B448FDF51E@boschma.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DCB4ED94-587D-460D-A16C-82568F5A344E@quintile.net>

That makes perfect sense…

So dns(1) should probably be patched then…?


Marc

> On 2 Jan 2016, at 8:21 pm, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
> 
> that would not work, because of how dns(1) presents its interface.
> 
> if the file server presented a directory of files then you can merge them.
> 
> however dns has a single file that you open, write a request to, and then later
> read a reply from.
> 
> in this later form you merge the directories you just have two request files,
> rather than one request file which offers the service of moth files.
> 
> I am not sure I have explained this very well, I hope you understand.
> 
> -Steve
> 




      reply	other threads:[~2016-01-02  9:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-01 20:05 Steve Simon
2016-01-02  3:30 ` Marc Boschma
2016-01-02  3:42   ` erik quanstrom
2016-01-02  5:17     ` Marc Boschma
2016-01-02  9:21       ` Steve Simon
2016-01-02  9:59         ` Marc Boschma [this message]

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