William,
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, William X. Walsh wrote:
> Hello N.B.,
>
> Monday, October 02, 2000, 4:41:47 PM, you wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have, or can you point me to a script that does domain
> > redirection and cloaking?
>
> Not at the moment, but the OpenBOX/POSSR Open Source Domain Registry
> will have support for that eventually. I've got the initial code,
> which only does delegation to nameservers, functional and working on a
> live site. I plan to add IP DNS service and URL Redirection to it
> rather quickly now.
>
> It's written in Perl and uses the DBI module and MySQL extensively.
>
> As for NT support, I have absolutely no intention of directly
> supporting NT, but I'm sure others will contribute any modifications
> for a NT working version when it is available for download.
>
> I have it setup for a third level domain registry right now, and the
> company who partially funded its development is planning on using it
> for a Top level domain registry (non-ICANN root server network). I
> suppose one could just extract the URL redirection code from this and
> use it standalone, but again, someone else will have to do that, as I
> have no intention of directly support just the URL redirection as a
> standalone app. For anyone with any knowledge of Perl and DBI, doing
> this would not be a problem.
>
> The code is not available for distribution yet. It will be (We are
> talking days and hours, not weeks or months) very soon. We are still
> working on the licensing part, weighing GPL vs BSD or Apache style.
> Feel free to contact me if you want a heads up when it is released. I
> anxiously await people assisting with this.
>
> It really is not hard to learn Perl and DBI and SQL syntax.
>
> I recommend the books at http://www.learnperl.org/
I would be interested to learn, what the advantages of this (or any) perl
script are compared to the simple HTML I posted last night. I am sure
there must be something or people wouldn't take all the trouble of writing
perl :-)
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