Eleanor McHugh
10/7/2007 3:09:00 PM
On 30 Aug 2007, at 15:14, Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
> The most interesting feature (being able to send messages to "spawned
> processes" that are resident in other O/S processes or on other
> machines)
> isn't done yet. I'm not that thrilled with how Erlang does it, by
> the way
> (IP addresses and ranges of well-known ports) but I haven't thought of
> anything better. DNS service records, maybe?
You might like to take a look at DNS NAPTR records. They're not
exactly well supported yet outside of ENUM projects, but they have
lots of flexibility that you might find useful.
At some point in the non-too-distant future I even hope to publish a
decent Ruby library for handling them as part of my RINDR DNS server
project.
Ellie
Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
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