Hi Martin,

>> * I learnt somewhere that zeromq 0.3 had a "locator" daemon providing
>> similar functionality, though it seems not to be part of the core
>> library anymore. What happenned to it?

>The problem with a location service is that for large deployments you 
>need a real production-quality distributed directory service, such as 
>DNS or LDAP. Which is by itself probably more complex than 0MQ itself.

>Thus, we've removed the existing half-assed solution and defined the 
>locator functionality to be out-of-scope of 0MQ project. In other words, 
>users are free to use any location service out there.

>The long term prospect, however, is to integrate 0MQ with DNS.

Thank you, it makes things clear.
Sincerely
Azamat


      
_______________________________________________
zeromq-dev mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev

Reply via email to