On Sep 25, 10:36, "Erik E. Fair" (Time Keeper) sent the following to the NSA's mail archives:
Subject: Re: Persistent Services Needed || One way to establish persistent services is to use the DNS for || indirection: || register a name for a service (or a set of services), which then point to || servers of those services by a DNS name. If the service needs to move || (hosts, net connections, etc), the only thing that changes is the || DNS zone file and the references to the service through the name stay || exactly the same. Hell, if your service requires no state information || or can have replicated data (e.g. DNS, FTP, WWW), you can use "round || robin" techniques with very low DNS RR TTL's to spread the service || load over a bunch of widely distributed hosts. ||
Sounds like a good idea to me. I've always kinda wondered why there wasn't a cypherpunks.org or something. It'd certainly make it easier for folks to find us... -- ========================================================================== David J. Bianco | Web Wonders, Online Oddities, Cool Stuff iTribe, Inc. | Phone: (804) 446-9060 Fax: (804) 446-9061 Suite 1700, World Trade Center | email: <bianco@itribe.net> Norfolk, VA 23510 | URL : http://www.itribe.net/~bianco/