On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 3:50 AM, marius@yo2loj.ro wrote:
(Please trim inclusions from previous messages) _______________________________________________ Just that there will be alot of opposition from people worrying about 1 ping an hour should some multicast group announcement and subscription messages appear on the network...
Ultimately that is the biggest problem. We can't even get network operators to allow ICMP packets without them scrutinizing every packet that comes across the wire as a threat. Among other topics...
One idea for a framework however would be to use something like Consul to do service discovery and post it on said website/directory. That way it's not multicast in nature, anyone can join it's cluster and in fact would make the service more resilient, it can provide DNS features dynamically as well as a key/value store for inserting/distributing information.