Subj : Re: DNS Ideas
To   : Oli
From : Avon
Date : Sat Oct 10 2020 13:37:18

On 09 Oct 2020 at 09:07a, Oli pondered and said...

 Ol>  A> I could set up a CNAME to that if you want, I was thinking we establis
 Ol>  A> some naming convention in the fsxnet.nz domain space for HUBs and prom
 Ol>  A> those addresses to nodes... something like net3.fsxnet.nz or similar..
 Ol>  A> what do you think?
 Ol> 
 Ol> Would it make things easier or more reliable? Isn't it just an
 Ol> additional layer
 Ol> and potential point of failure? What about SRV records?

Well good question. I'm coming at this from the POV that it's standardizing
the information we can give new nodes such that if they are polling fsxNet
NET 1 instead of polling agency.bbs.nz they use net1.fsxnet.nz and certainly
cosmetically and perhaps more intuitively seems a better thing to be typing
in to the domain field.

Where we have HUBs that don't have static IPv4 or IPv6 addresses then the
option to have a CNAME seemed like a way to offer a standardized fsxNet
net domain name to poll without needing to know it's error404 or leenooks
etc.

SRV records I know little of but if there's a good way to use them I'm all
ears :)

 Ol> But what do I care, I'm connecting to the .onion address over Tor anyway
 
indeed :) I'm not sure if there's a need for me to do any DNS stuff in the
fsxnet.nz domain space for this that would help? If there is, lemme know.

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