"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 private 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<quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: >> 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 > > -- Vinu Rajashekhar, 5th Year Dual Degree Student, Deptt of Computer Science & Engg, IIT Kharagpur, India.
