Re: Vat Location Service shapj@us.ibm.com
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 08:59:27 -0500

If your description is correct, why can't a VLS live at a well-known URL and handle queries via http? If it can do this, it can run as a servlet....

> Unlike Vats, VLSs don't require any interesting security. Compromising a
> VLS threatens only to waste resources. Given multiple working VLSs, one
> probably usually even deny service by compromising a single VLS.
>
> A VLS should be run as a Java process (>= Java 1.1.6) with TCP/IP access
> to/from the open internet. A TCP/IP address should be permanently
assigned
> to it, and it must always be able to create a listen-socket on this
address
> when it restarts. We would then advertise this address.