Re: instead of DNS, stamp value server

Hubert Chan <[email protected]> Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:51:15 -0400

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On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:56:12 -0400, "Eric S. Johansson" <[email protected]> said:

> this occurred to me quite a long time ago but I never wrote it down.
> If instead of using DNS, we used a simple server (Web, XML RPC) and
> the request returned the number of bits of stamp that IP address
> should calculate in order to successfully pass the filter on the far
> side.

This could also be used to allow different users to set their own
required stamp sizes, if they're not happy with the domain default.

Hubert