I spent the departmental doughnut budget on a .tel domain, thinking it would be a good idea. Maybe it will. I guess it depends how many people get on board, as usual. The .tel root servers are visible, and one can query them, but the delegation is missing. Unless I misunderstood and that's deliberate $ host -a yahoo.tel a0.cth.dns.nic.tel. yahoo.tel. 60 IN TXT ".tsm" "1" "pddx" "1" yahoo.tel. 60 IN NAPTR 1 1 "u" "E2U+web:http" "!^.*$!http://www.yahoo.tel!"; . I feel I was somewhat misled by Network Solutions. I thought it was going to be another TLD like .org, .info etc. with a normal Web page. But no - it's a way of putting contact information into the DNS so it can be easily parsed by lightweight clients in cellphones etc. It seems to be aimed at the mobile generation for personal use (central repo for AIM/jabber/cell/email etc.), but also for businesses. https://telhosting.networksolutions.com/vfs/pdf/telguide.pdf http://dev.telnic.org I've managed to enter a few basic things in triumf.tel As to what this has to do with Maemo, one of the contact fields is a GPS* location Also there is an API and development community. So far, tools for iPhone, Outlook. I only looked briefly but I think the intent is that you can update information dynamically using the API. Otherwise there is a wizard at telnic.org that updates the DNS in what seems like real time. TTL is set to 1 hour, negative caching to 10 minutes. (* using "GPS" as my cellular carrier seems to now, as a shorthand for "geographic location in WGS84 coordinates" rather than "Global Positioning System"). -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376 (Pacific Time) Network Security Manager _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
