Message-Id: <199502112322.AA05318@ahhh.internet.com>
From: "Rob Raisch" <raisch@internet.com>
To: raisch@internet.com, Ruediger Volk <rv@deins.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1995 18:24:31 -0500
Subject: Re: DNS vs HOME PAGE[S]?
While I can appreciate Ruediger's insight here, I would suggest that
the simplest solution is to change the HTTP protocol to accept the
entire URL. Using more than one IP address per machine, (routers and
gateways excepted, of course), only complicates the problem more.
Besides, this is only appropros for Unix-en where we can play games
with the networking code. Hardly a broadbased solution, eh?
One of the real problems here that I have been anxious to address is
the ability to mirror HTTP resources across multiple hosts in a
seamless (at least to the user) manner. If we sent the entire URL in
the request, it wouldn't matter what machine actually received it.
I have a modified version of named that allows a variety of
interesting games to be played in response to a domain name request.
One of the uses I put this to is to direct requests to multiple
IP addresses depending on the network of origin of the requestor.
It attempts to address part of the "appropriate retrieval decision"
problem that some of you know I am concerned with.
</rr>