Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-libcloud-archive@minotaur.apache.org Received: (qmail 83907 invoked from network); 3 Jun 2010 04:34:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by 140.211.11.9 with SMTP; 3 Jun 2010 04:34:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 49724 invoked by uid 500); 3 Jun 2010 04:34:59 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-libcloud-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 49608 invoked by uid 500); 3 Jun 2010 04:34:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libcloud-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: libcloud@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list libcloud@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 49600 invoked by uid 99); 3 Jun 2010 04:34:57 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:34:57 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=10.0 tests=FREEMAIL_FROM,SPF_PASS,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of solomon.hykes@gmail.com designates 209.85.160.175 as permitted sender) Received: from [209.85.160.175] (HELO mail-gy0-f175.google.com) (209.85.160.175) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:34:52 +0000 Received: by gya1 with SMTP id 1so3161683gya.6 for ; Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:34:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=tELhhC9vriDW4HDFJcMMpHFMXDDLMQxNp1IeJI6X/e8=; b=gkDw2AcDqdmRFchq+PMOgO6cMeaSg7D4nVtlDkWghSmNcgJemr9pvwHHb+PhkKPs0I AGP2WsZPz7JmDO9OiIxn0udsdjuC0j+J+Fsw8t0UX5oEpsRjSgfMUQLs4wGCb8B3ljcc k3gcRdQ4vt+TbQkckam8hOPRnsVYF/tsU/D3E= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=MbhoJzj/d8gWSkbnsPoqmX6Dwha1vSh+OUHJpN4iqL3aIjPALZwYuSqYXs5jvx8nAu auI8BYQcQ9jndYPH7tj3DxdHxwj4HIw6Acg1fGtm5r0VU2hk0a1Nm1pzTESpacVSN4lt AEHT4f/ptW0U6inWgWiYmWODLLnA8elvjBTwQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.225.72 with SMTP id ir8mr1745472qcb.73.1275539671685; Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:34:31 -0700 (PDT) Sender: solomon.hykes@gmail.com Received: by 10.229.51.5 with HTTP; Wed, 2 Jun 2010 21:34:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <719DFC64-FC7B-450B-952C-CF474069F4E8@apache.org> <15B32FC6-97EE-4D7A-B467-4E92C6929064@apache.org> <2361C581-EF99-4019-AF27-0B8051BB591A@dislocatedday.com> <23E015F6-FAFF-467C-B9B8-E846D0144780@apache.org> Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 21:34:31 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: jU2dQ2xQfcCJsAGZM3bdJuUeNFs Message-ID: From: Solomon Hykes To: libcloud@incubator.apache.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [libcloud] pricing update thoughts On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Dan Di Spaltro wrote: > I don't know enough about the DNS protocol, but are there limitations. = =A0This > seems like a weird way to do it... Are we just doing it to be novel, or I > don't see why a typical webserver serving JSON (pretty well tested) set u= p > isn't good enough. The 2 things you get for free with DNS are 1. caching and 2. virtually unlimited scalability. I would evaluate how much work and money would be spent on implementing a cache system in libcloud and hosting a json file reliably. Depending on the answer, using DNS will make sense or not. Definitely no point in doing it for the sake of novelty.