# Re: Possible Cool idea...

Martin Hamilton (martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk)
Mon, 2 May 1994 13:28:35 +0100 (BST)

- Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]
- Next message: Dirk Herr-Hoyman: "URI WG position paper for WWW Navigation needs Workshop?"
- Previous message: Ruediger Volk: "Re: Possible Cool idea..."
- In reply to: Dirk Herr-Hoyman: "Re: Possible Cool idea..."
- Next in thread: Ruediger Volk: "Re: Possible Cool idea..."
- Reply: Ruediger Volk: "Re: Possible Cool idea..."

    Message-Id: <8hlD7nmSTRk7M3erBz@mrrl.lut.ac.uk>

    Date: Mon,  2 May 1994 13:28:35 +0100 (BST)

    From: Martin Hamilton <martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk>

    To: uri@bunyip.com

    Subject: Re: Possible Cool idea...

    In-Reply-To: <m0pxvSD-0004GYC@inca.gate.net>

Excerpts from mail: 2-May-94 Re: Possible Cool idea... Dirk
Herr-Hoyman@gate.ne (2052*)

> Even a single probe adds alot. In Mitra's SIMPLE scheme, I count 2 net
> requests, 1 for the URI servers and one to get the URC. A probe here adds
> another. At this point, it looks to me that most of the time will be
> spents waiting for each net requests, in which case you just added 50% to
> our wait. It's also a probe that's likely go out a long way (not to a
> local net), adding just that much more background noise to the Net.

Hmm... this is all getting a bit too complicated !

We can combine gethostbyname() with a TXT lookup by calling
res_mkquery() with type T_ANY instead of T_TXT. The result should be
all of the records associated with the domain name - i.e. the union of
gethostbyname and a TXT lookup. This hardly increases the network
traffic at all, and the code to implement it is trivial.

- Next message: Dirk Herr-Hoyman: "URI WG position paper for WWW Navigation needs Workshop?"
- Previous message: Ruediger Volk: "Re: Possible Cool idea..."
- In reply to: Dirk Herr-Hoyman: "Re: Possible Cool idea..."
- Next in thread: Ruediger Volk: "Re: Possible Cool idea..."
- Reply: Ruediger Volk: "Re: Possible Cool idea..."