Hi Fred, > Also, what about other non-DNS naming services that can be deployed > within a site/organization? E.g., the Sun Yellow Pages (I guess it's called > NIS now?)
We don't confess it in public, and we block all RPC requests at our border
routers, but some of us do.
> and the naming service developed by Project Athena at MIT
> back in the 1980's (not sure on the name of this one, but "Hessiod" rings
> a bell)
I'm not from Athens, but AFAIK,
HESIOD uses DNS ... it packs more information than host information into DNS.
> still widely used by site administrators? (Feeling a bit like Rip Van
> Winkle waking up from a 15-yr slumber wrt this technology space...)
hehe.
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