On 04/30/2014 01:46 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Lamar Owen lowen@pari.edu wrote:
Dynamic DNS can be, yes. It depends upon the way the zone file is updated and whether it's Internet-exposed on not.
So how can it be dynamic, but controlled at the same time?
Set up a DD-WRT consumer router for use with OpenDNS by way of dns-o-matic and you'll see how. Now replace OpenDNS and dns-o-matic with your own services.
I'll take [SRV record examples] as a 'no' for the general case.
How is an RFC quote and an example of a running standardized application using the feature a 'no?' Please read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record and see just how standardized it is.
How is [rolling a cloud instance dev VM] easier than saying 'ssh nodename yum -y install postgresql-server'/ Something I already know how to do and how to make happen any number of ties - and something that works on real hardware and in spite of the differences in VM cloud tools.
How do you guarantee a clean sandbox? In the cloud case, every VM rolled is as clean as the template that generated it, and gives you a known starting point. And I use PostgreSQL as the example since I maintained those RPMs for five years, and I understand the need for a clean sandbox, having learned the hard way what can happen if you don't take the care to make your sandbox clean (this was pre-mach, and definitely pre-mock, and buildroots had to be carefully regulated since they weren't cleanly sandboxed by mock and kin).
At the expense of being black magic that won't work outside of that environment. I don't like magic. I don't like things that lock you in to only one vendor/tool/OS.
OpenStack will do most of what I'm talking about already.
Actually, I'd like to see a single device do all of that gunk plus have an HDMI out to act as a media player so a typical home would only need one extra 'thing' besides the computer/tablet/phone. But it doesn't matter - you still have to configure it somehow. Do you want things to guess at your firewall rules?
That last point is exactly what UPNP was supposed to solve.
Such a device as you want exists; see the GuruPlug Display and descendants. They are definitely tinkering boxen, and they do have their issues (I have a GuruPlug Server Plus with the eSATA port and the infamous overheating problems) but they are available.