maintaining data in DNS, was Re: [HECnet] HECnet performance....

On 9 Jan 2013, at 12:43, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: On 01/09/2013 10:50 AM, Brian Hechinger wrote: Set up a (cisco) tunnel to 130.238.19.60 (and tell me your side IP address). I think it's time to come up with something a little better to track all these. Thoughts? A subdomain under some related domain (perhaps <sub>.hecnet.update.uu.se?) with the tunnel endpoints as A records? The problem here is that it isn't searchable. You need to know the A record name. It would be more useful for me to have it in a db. You could do an AXFR query for the subdomain. ;) Did I ever tell you about how I implemented a linked list in TXT records back in '93? At one time, Digex' nameservers had the menus for all the local carry-out restaurants stored, item by item, in the nameserver. I wrote a little C program to traverse the linked lists and print out the menus. That sounds like an approach /I/ would try. ;) -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA