On 9/13/07, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> while thinking about my plans for using 9P servers in numerious
> situations I just realized that server management can become
> quite complex.
>
> For example if an application like mozilla would move out many
> jobs (ie. like currently discussing @ mozilla.org: rss-feeds),
> server management can be quite complicated. We can't expect
> neither the user nor the individual application to be responsible
> for that. We need some zero-configuration approach.
>
> Actually it can be done by another server, which knows about
> all the individual servers, handles startup/shutdown and tells
> the clients where to find them, how to authenticate, etc, etc.
> A little bit like RPC portmap.
>
> What do you think about this idea ?
>
While going with something "standard" (but a bit sticky) like zeroconf
may be attractive, you may want to look at what the Plan B guys did --
IIRC they have network discovery and organization integrated into
their basic framework.
Essentially I think it makes the most sense to work this sort of
auto-discovery into existing services (ndb/cs for instance).
Accomodating zeroconf as a protocol would be nice (particularly from a
cross-platform compatibility angle), but you could also do something
like Inferno's registry.
-eric
