From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2005-01-19T22:33:08+09:00
Subject: Re: rinda with other protocols

Quoteing drbrain@segment7.net, on Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 02:08:13PM +0900:
> On 18 Jan 2005, at 20:56, jm wrote:
> 
> >Is it possible to get rinda to work (simply) with protocols other drb? 
> >eg, soap and beep.
> 
> Rinda::Ring is small enough that you could easily rewrite it, since its 
> all of 164 lines.
> 
> >Just have some insane ideas I'd like to play with. If there is an 
> >alternative that works with other languages as well please let me 
> >know. The main requirement is being able to locate services in an 
> >automated language independent manner.
> 
> Keep in mind that Rinda::Ring only works on a local subnet, since it 
> uses UDP broadcasts to locate services.

I'm in the process of adding Rendezvous support (pure ruby) to ruby's
resolv.rb using it's DNS support. I've got address lookups on my OS X
network working, but I need to get some bug fixes into the ruby core lib
before I can release.

After that, I want to add support for DNS-SD, which is the rendezvous
service discovery protocol, but is basically just a convention for
DNS record naming that works on mDNS or the more typical unicast
DNS.

I think this could be used in Rinda as a less ruby-specific way of
advertising services, and if the service advertised is a soap or
beep server port, that should work fine with DNS-SD.

Anyhow, just to let folks know that something is coming that might
help with this a bit, at least on a local area network.

Cheers,
Sam