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 18:29:02 +0530 Message-ID: From: Vinu Rajashekhar 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: 5c76ca02-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 "You can implement a NAT by mounting a /net from a perimeter machine with a public IP, while connecting to it from an internal network of privat= e IP addresses, using the Plan 9 protocol 9P in the internal network." This is from the wikipedia page on Plan 9 OS. Is something like iptables like in linux needed to be implemented for Plan 9 ? Again forgive me if I came out looking like an idiot ! On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 6:21 PM, erik quanstrom wrot= e: >> I think there are a few issues beyond will it scale - of course with >> 128k nodes scaling is a baseline prereq for us. =A0On 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. =A0wouldn't it? > > by the way, ndb/cs is already a program that > replaces a static file. =A0why couldn't you use > it to do these interesting lookups? =A0it 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. =A0:-) > > - erik > > --=20 Vinu Rajashekhar, 5th Year Dual Degree Student, Deptt of Computer Science & Engg, IIT Kharagpur, India.