[sldev] Re: [VWR] summary of VWR-4021 discussion from 2008-01-08 AWGroupies meeting & general hostname issues

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 2008-01-10, at 07:03, Sean Dague wrote:
> The host portion of the secondlife:// URL should be the grid entry
> point, not the hostname of the sim itself.

That's a separate issue.

The perfect solution would be for LL to publish a TXT record for each  
of Ahern.grid.secondlife.com, da-boom.grid.secondlife.com, and so on.  
That TXT record would contain the actual host and (as an aside) any  
other data potentially needed to login to their grid. The client  
would simply append ".grid.secondlife.com" to the host portion if  
it's not a FQDN. For other grids, they would have their own TXT  
records published for their own domains, so for them you'd log in to  
secondlife://theirsim.theirdomain.example.com/...

> Much like you don't know
> which physical machines you are hitting when you go to
> http://www.amazon.com.

That's also a separate issue.

I don't know what physical machines I'm hitting when I go to  
forums.secondlife.com or www.secondlife.com or jira.secondlife.com.  
The sim identification is like that.