John Taylor wrote:
> In fact, one could go further an eliminate the hub and go peer to
> peer....each application picks a port in a defined range to host
> its own xmlrpc server. When an application wants to discover its
> peers it scans this range, and should easily detect whether the
> port belongs to a suitable application.
It's just occurred to me that we probably both know at least one system administrator that might shoot their users for running software that's basically doing a port scan against the machine. If we do go down this route we're going to have to be very (very) careful about writing the specification.
Al. Received on 2007-02-16Z23:44:00