On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 04:56:11PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Mark Woodward wrote: > > Don't get me wrong, DNS, as it is designed, is PERFECT for the > > distributed nature of the internet, but replication of fairly static > > data under the control of a central authority (the admin) is better. > > What about this zeroconf/bonjour stuff? I'm not familiar with it, but > it sounds like it could tie into this discussion.
I think the major issue is that most such systems (like RFC2782) deal only with finding the hostname:port of the service and don't deal with usernames/passwords/dbname. What we want is a system that not only finds the service, but tells you enough to connect. You can't connect to a postgres server without a dbname and these discovery protocols don't generally provide that. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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