On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Michael Stone <mich...@laptop.org> wrote: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Network_principles#Name_resolution
Even if we were to do all sorts of DNS smartypants stuff - the only protocol where we can play games is http. The protocol is highly proxy-able, redirect-able and nimble, and most importantly, all the _clients_ are specially adept and handling odd "bait-and-switch" abuse. For example, the kind of behaviour that you see when connecting to commercial Wifi hotspots -- these days they mostly do the right thing (unless your initial connection was https), but they used to muck with DNS. Badly. Every other (useful) protocol I can see in my /etc/services breaks if you try this stuff. Maybe some limited interactions work -- like with SMTP -- but overall, it just doesn't work. We can muck with HTTP with a transparent proxy that allows us to serve some "remote" URLs locally. I want to avoid it, but if we have to do it, we will. Every other protocol - I plan to leave alone :-) cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
