Subj : proposed new nodelist                                    [2]
To   : Peter Knapper
From : Malcolm Miles
Date : Thu Oct 10 2002 01:00 am

On Jul 18, 2002 Peter Knapper wrote to Malcolm Miles:

JB> could PSTN nodes could have DNS entries without having IP addresses
JB> (I expect malcolm knows the answer to this), that could help.

PK> It could make sense if it could be used by IP only nodes to find an
PK> IP ==> PSTN Gateway to reach the target PSTN node.

All PSTN nodes could have DNS entries with the listed host
pointing to the host used by its IP ==> PSTN gateway.

Alternatively you could only list net, region or zone gateways. If the mailer 
software didn't find a DNS entry for a particular node it would walk up the 
net/region/zone tree until it found a
gateway.

For example if no DNS entry for
"_binkp._tcp.f260.n633.z3.fidonet.net" was found, a search would be made for a 
net gateway at "_binkp._tcp.n633.z3.fidonet.net" and if not found it could then 
try looking for a zone gateway at "_binkp._tcp.z3.fidonet.net".

Just realised that this option doesn't allow for region gateways as they aren't 
included in the node address structure.

Perhaps the first option of giving all PSTN nodes a DNS entry that points to 
their IP gateway is the most flexible.

Best wishes,
Malcolm

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