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You can set up a server listening to port 53 that will return the corresponding entry from a "hosts file" if you query it for an A record. To avoid the file gro
by rzzzt 3y ago
You can set up a server listening to port 53 that will return the corresponding entry from a "hosts file" if you query it for an A record. To avoid the file growing uncomfortably big, it can be split up amongst hierarchically arranged servers.
- alex_suzuki 3y agoHow would you call this hypothetical system? It’s almost like a distributed system for looking up names.
- rzzzt 3y agoAn RFC might have been submitted for this already, let me check!