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SNSP = Simple Network Selection Protocol Alexander Harrowell wrote: > NCAP - Network Capability (or Cost) Announcement Protocol. > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Matthew Moyle-Croft > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > (I know, replying to your own email is sad ...) > > You could probably do this with a variant of DNS. Use an Anycast > > address common to everyone to solve the discovery problem. Client > > sends a DNS request for a TXT record for, as an example, > > 148.165.32.217.p2ptopology.org > <http://148.165.32.217.p2ptopology.org>. The topology box looks > at the IP > > address that the request came from and does some magic based on the > > requested information and returns a ranking score based on that > (maybe > > 0-255 worse to best) that the client can then use to rank where it > > downloads from. (might have to run DNS on another port so that > normal > > resolvers don't capture this). > > > > The great thing is that you can use it for other things. > > > Since this could be dynamic (I'm guessing BGP and other things > like SNMP > feeding the topology box) you could then use it to balance traffic > flows > through your network to avoid congestion on certain links - that's > a win > for everyone. You could get webbrowsers to look at it when > you've got > multiple A records to chose which one is best for things like Flash > video etc. > > MMC > > -- > Matthew Moyle-Croft - Internode/Agile - Networks > Level 5, 150 Grenfell Street, Adelaide, SA 5000 Australia > Email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Web: > http://www.on.net > Direct: +61-8-8228-2909 Mobile: +61-419-900-366 > Reception: +61-8-8228-2999 Fax: +61-8-8235-6909 > > "The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, > but in escaping from the old ones" - John Maynard Keynes > > > _______________________________________________ > NANOG mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog > > -- Matthew Moyle-Croft - Internode/Agile - Networks Level 5, 150 Grenfell Street, Adelaide, SA 5000 Australia Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.on.net Direct: +61-8-8228-2909 Mobile: +61-419-900-366 Reception: +61-8-8228-2999 Fax: +61-8-8235-6909 "The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones" - John Maynard Keynes _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog
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