[Gllug] sorts of ports

[Alex Hudson]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:44:50AM +0000, Bruce at mailer.cafod wrote:
> The system of known ports, where standard services use specific ports, is 
> a hack from the early days of the net.  Many alternatives have been 
> suggested, often involving extensions to DNS (your cue, Alex).

:) Are my rants that memorable?

It has to be said though, dns does suck awfully badly. 

And people better watch out, because if dns doesn't get un-sucked very quickly we're either going to be stuck with something proprietry (such as MSAD) or everyone will be transporting everything over http and using some higher-level routing type effort.

I think people are beginning to demand more from their systems - reliability, etc., - plus there's all the extras people are interested in (service lookup & discovery, directory info, etc.). I think dns has had it's day.

Cheers,

Alex.

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