Re: [Sidebar] - Interesting discussion on impact of "simple" HTTP requests

From: Peter Samuelson <peter_at_p12n.org>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 10:00:49 -0500

[Markus Schaber]
> A simple "check for update" could be done sending a single UDP packet
> containg a list of keys (package names, uuids or similar), and the
> reply is another UDP packet containing the available versions.

This sort of thing is, in fact, often done in DNS. (A "single UDP
packet", indeed, with an already deployed global caching scheme with a
configurable lifetime.) SpamAssassin rule updates, for instance.

Peter
Received on 2012-06-06 17:01:29 CEST

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