Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!peregrine!elroy!ames!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!logicon.arpa!Makey From: Makey@LOGICON.ARPA (Jeff Makey) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Grumpy != grumpy Message-ID: <151@logicon.arpa> Date: 17 Nov 88 00:23:28 GMT References: Organization: Logicon, Inc., San Diego, CA Lines: 21 In article lear@NET.BIO.NET (Eliot Lear) writes: >So really what we need is a way for uucp sites to have access to name >servers. [implementation details omitted] >Also, keep in mind that one of goals of DNS is to AVOID tables for >other sites. A software solution should reflect that theme. Yes, but you would *still* need tables to tell you how to get to at least the top-level domain servers, and the domain-name resolver would probably keep its own cache (read: table) of paths. Tables cannot be entirely eliminated, but they can be made as small as one entry. There is a tradeoff between local table size and real-time network traffic to resolve names. Has anyone done any modeling to determine the optimum balance between these two? :: Jeff Makey Department of Tautological Pleonasms and Superfluous Redundancies Department Disclaimer: Logicon doesn't even know we're running news. Internet: Makey@LOGICON.ARPA UUCP: nosc!logicon.arpa!Makey