On Jul 28, 2008, at 1:52 PM, David A. Bryan wrote:
I might be missing the point, but I don't think Bruce is talking about the enrollment server here at all. The question rather is what the purpose of a bootstrap server that isn't also a peer. If a bootstrap server is just essentially a persistent bootstrap peer, then I think RELOAD already has this. The question is -- do you have an interest in a server that is the bootstrap server but *isn't* a peer, and if so, why? If not, isn't a bootstrap server really just a bootstrap peer that happens to be up all the time?
A bootstrap server in my vocabulary is a high-availability point of contact that lets you find a bootstrap peer. You then use the bootstrap peer to join the overlay.
A "bootstrap peer that happens to be up all the time" is a bootstrap server if you have a way to find it outside of the overlay protocol. DNS, DDNS, mDNS, WedDAV collections, etc. are example ways to find it.
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