From: "David J. Bianco" <bianco@itribe.net>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 95 12:08:53 PDT
To: "Erik E. Fair"  (Time Keeper) <fair@clock.org>
Subject: Re: Persistent Services Needed
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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...


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