Subj : proposed new nodelist
To : Peter Knapper
From : Johannes Lundberg
Date : Sun Jul 21 2002 06:59 pm
pk> Yes that is another way, however somewhere among all this we get back
pk> into the age old argument within Fidonet members that using a single
pk> service to manage such a task is putting all the eggs in one basket and
pk> taking the purpose for it being a hobby out of the hands of the users.
pk> Hence why distributing the info within DNS, rather than concentrating it
pk> in a few servers, makes good sense from several perspectives.
Relying on one single server is not very good. Especially not if ALL
mail-transfers depends on it. That's one potential problem using such a system
(as the DNS-system, or a system of our own). If the "root"-server (the
DNS-server for the domain, like fidonet.net) goes down, not a single conversion
from 4D-adress to IP and Services can be done during the downtime.
