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.

 
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