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

[Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:51 AM, erik quanstrom<quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> 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?
>

Of course.  My use of DNS was really just in abstract to refer to the
suite of existing services for name and service resolution under Plan
9.  However, I think the current interfaces for ndb and cs are very
limiting and the single file based query mechanisms don't really match
the hierarchical style of the rest of the system.  If there is a
masters project in here, its to look at a revision of the whole suite
and extension of the relevant file system based interfaces.  The other
side of this is then to integrate this new service
registration/discovery mechanism to existing applications.  When I
export, a flag should make that export visible to zeroconf resolution,
etc.

      -eric