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  • Nodelist, the main issue

    From Johannes Lundberg@1:218/903 to Haakan Karlsson on Saturday, July 20, 2002 16:19:21
    If the new list comes in a new file-echo and maybe with a new name there will be no confusion. The old software will not recognize it as a
    nodelist or nodediff until it has been converted. A list in the present format can be distributed in paralell during a reasonable time to make a smooth transition possible.

    And it wouldn't even have to be a transition period. Nodes could continue to use their old software as long as they want.

    I think this is the way to go.


    [SIDENOTES. Just an add-on feature to a new nodelist-format]

    Although, the DNS-system has some interesting features too. It makes you up-to-date, all the time. And it removes the need for a local nodelist. But I think this could be solved even better with a new nodelist-format. You could have an optional central nodelist-server, whom you could ask for a certain nodelist-entry. This would give you the good things from both ideas. hejsan

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