- From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
- Date: Sat, 08 Jul 1995 15:00:37 -0400
- To: Martin Hamilton <martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk>
- Cc: uri@bunyip.com, moore@cs.utk.edu
> For background info, see <URL:http://inet.nttam.com/HMP/PAPER/173/> > > This paper proposes a new DNS record "DX" (Directory eXchange), which > can be simulated for the moment with "TXT" (TeXT) records: > > rs.itd.umich.edu -> > TXT "dx: 0 ldap://terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu:6666/" > TXT "dx: 10 ldap://vertigo.rs.itd.umich.edu:6666/umich.edu" The "URNs considered harmful" draft has a similar proposal, only it uses the domain from a URL as the "naming authority" for the DNS lookup. > PS Just for fun - what would the degenerate case be (no DX records) ? > Talk HTTP to an IP address associated with the domain name ?? A la > MX - but which port number ?! If URLs are used for resource names, the degenerate case becomes: access the URL via normal means. Keith
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