On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Dan Di Spaltro <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know enough about the DNS protocol, but are there limitations. This > seems like a weird way to do it... Are we just doing it to be novel, or I > don't see why a typical webserver serving JSON (pretty well tested) set up > isn't good enough.
The 2 things you get for free with DNS are 1. caching and 2. virtually unlimited scalability. I would evaluate how much work and money would be spent on implementing a cache system in libcloud and hosting a json file reliably. Depending on the answer, using DNS will make sense or not. Definitely no point in doing it for the sake of novelty.
