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A fraction of a second delay probably wouldn't be noticeable to the end user - you'd only ever lookup the number when actually making the call. DNS may be distr
by phpnode 17y ago
A fraction of a second delay probably wouldn't be noticeable to the end user - you'd only ever lookup the number when actually making the call. DNS may be distributed but that's part of the problem - you can't just set your address to redirect to another number when you're out on lunch - it'd take too long for the changes to propagate through the system. You wouldn't put email addresses at the DNS level, so why do this?
- wibblenut 17y ago>A fraction of a second delay probably wouldn't be noticeable to the end user It is (try it), and retries/outages would be very noticeable. One of the applications I'm particularly interested in is directory services, and as you can imagine browsing through trees is extremely sensitive to responsiveness. Dialing a name should also be near instantaneous. >DNS may be distributed but that's part of the problem - you can't just set your address to redirect to another number when you're out on lunch You can (.tel allows you to switch between "profiles"). >it'd take too long for the changes to propagate through the system. You can set TTLs to whatever you like (60 by default).