From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <91fc78b80acbea93abcb30ec83c88769@quanstro.net> References: <91fc78b80acbea93abcb30ec83c88769@quanstro.net> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:42:12 -0500 Message-ID: From: Eric Van Hensbergen To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Interested in improving networking in Plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5c8721b8-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:51 AM, erik quanstrom wrot= e: > 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. =A0wouldn'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