annotate db/README @ 926:9a20ac799339 draft

welcome /IdeaNode :-)
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date Mon, 05 Mar 2012 21:06:51 +0000
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1 AnoNet Resource Database
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3 as => list of ASNs with owners
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4 dom => list of domains with owners and nameservers
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5 ip => list of direct IP assignments with owners and nameservers
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6 usr => list of users with useful information
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8 The domains are organized by TLD, making it easy to split TLDs off onto
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9 separate TLD servers, if that ever proves to be useful.
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11 The IP claims are classful, the rationale being that reverse DNS is
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12 classful anyway, and so trying to split delegations and rDNS on different
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13 boundries is just an easy way of adding nnnecessary complexity. If you
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14 want less than a class C, you should just take a full class C and share
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15 it with your friends. If you want a /23, just take 2 adjacent /24s.
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16 (Remember, your rDNS for the two blocks will have to be separate anyway.)
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18 If anybody wants IPv6, just add an ip6 directory (again, with
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19 subdirectories split according to rDNS rules).
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21 The user directory is intended to facilitate contact between users.
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22 Its original purpose was to maintain git URLs directly in the database
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23 (makes automated git peering dead simple), but it's useful for far more.
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24 Feel free to add arbitrary fields for users, but it may be wise to use an
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25 "x-" prefix if you're not sure about the best name for some field.