On Friday, January 26, 2001 16:31:47 -0800, "Jeremy A. Mates"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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| On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, iddwb wrote:
| > This would be interesting. Are they any possibilities of having
| > something like an MX record for lpr? Then, the lpr client could
| > handling routing around unavailable daemons...
|
| That would require hacking with the DNS protocol, I would imagine, as you
| would have to have a DNS server that knows to pass out "LPRX" records of
| some kind, and a client resolver library that knows what to do with them.
+--->8
If one liked pain, one could probably whip up something involving TXT
records and avoid modifying DNS protocols or servers. I think I'd sooner
beat my head with a spiked club, though. :)
--
brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
system administrator [WAY too many hats] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
carnegie mellon university ["better check the oblivious first" -ke6sls]
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