Re: Geographic location in /etc
On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 10:22:59AM +0100, Robin Stephenson wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 09:45:53 +0200 (CEST)
> >>>>> "Patrik" == Patrik Rak <patrik@ein.cz> wrote:
> Patrik> There are many programs which usually use the geographic
> Patrik> location [...] shared file [...]
> DNS records have a field for geographic location -- latitude,
> longitude, elevation and an error factor, so that you're defining a
> sphere of variable radius. This is in RFC 1876. Rather than defining
> a new way of specifying location, how about using this?
Because many hosts don't have control of their own DNS record. For that
matter, many hosts don't have a DNS record accassable to them much of the
time (IE are unconnected). It would probably be a Good Thing to store the
location in RFC1876 format, though.
-=- James Mastros
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