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> I don’t know why the author laughed about Hesiod,* which, like chaosnet was another MIT protocol in use for a while. Probably because you are maybe one of a
by Aicy 4y ago
> I don’t know why the author laughed about Hesiod,* which, like chaosnet was another MIT protocol in use for a while.
Probably because you are maybe one of a few hundreds of people who have made use of this (and it was decades ago), out of the billions of people who have used the internet.
Cool story though.
- linksnapzz 4y agoHesiod: still more comprehensible than LDAP, and probably more secure than NIS.
- lukeh 4y agoWell, I guess if you used Hesiod with DNSSEC. But that’s like saying you could use NIS with secure RPC, possible in theory but no one would build such an implementation because the world moved on. Weirdly I did actually implement a Hesiod plugin for macOS once, it never shipped though.
- dylan604 4y agoAll this does to me is show that the author didn't really research and just brushed it off. It is quite the trend. "I'm not aware of it, so it must not be important" type of thing.
- thayne 4y agoNah, I think it is more of a "here's this other thing that never caught on, and you probably don't know about that will live on forever because it is part of DNS."