Re: [[email protected]: a suggestion]

[sharing protocol/port info]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 09:43:14AM -0800, Erik Fears wrote:
> It would be better to make bopm read this data from a page served off http.

I would rather see this done in DNS in proxycheck format because:

- Several sites exist for that already

- DNS is an better way to distribute commonly accessed
  machine-readable data like this (LDAP would be better, but too
  complex)

Also I don't think that OPM's common protocols are a very good
source of "common proxy ports" because there is no one doing much
research on proxies for OPM at the moment.  What the OPM main
tester is testing for is led by other people's tips anyway, so it
would be better to get them from the source (which is often a dns
list in proxycheck format).

It is desirable for each network to share the common protocol list
amongst its bopms and it would be good if we could work that out but
I personally do not think that Blitzed is in a position to tell
other people what to test for.  If they would like to copy our
standard list in whatever format is chosen then that's their own
business.

Don't forget too that there is a recent patch to bopm by dg that
puts the common ports into the topic of the bopm channel.