Paul Querna wrote: > ... > > If the core fully supported UDP and multicast listeners, it should be > possible to write the heartmonitor module as just a protocol module, > although heartbeat would still likely need its current structure. > > ...
Issac Goldstand already developed UDP support, for the contributed mod_dns (both financed by my company, and contributed to the ASF). I believe that it's finally the time to add these things (together with mod_ftp) officially to the trunk, at least as experimental. Their place is there, and as low level modules, it's much more native to include them than some of mentioned modules. The current server, which was an HTTP daemon in the past, already supports various protocols (HTTPS, FTP in the proxy, etc.), si FTP and DNS will be great, especially when it's so hard to support them as external modules, contrary to some of the mentioned modules. Adding the SMTP module (as experimental, because it still needs many fixes) may close the circle and makes APACHE an all-in-one server, when many features (such as buckets-brigades, configuration, pools, MPM's, etc.) are reused in all of the protocols, and make APACHE a very elegant and smart server. -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CEO, Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __________________________________________________________ Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. Fax.: +972-9-766-1314 P.O.B. 7004 Mobile: +972-50-5237338 Kfar-Saba 44641, Israel
