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Re: Interrealm support issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derrick J Brashear)
Fri Jan 3 16:01:01 1997
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 15:54:38 -0500 (EST)
From: Derrick J Brashear <shadow@DEMENTIA.ORG>
Reply-To: Derrick J Brashear <shadow@DEMENTIA.ORG>
To: zephyr@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <t53g20io5le.fsf@rover.cygnus.com>
> Second, I'm going to establish some terminology. A zephyr realm is a
> set of zephyr servers which share a database and an authentication
> key. Interrealm zephyr is what Derrick implemented, where realms know
> about each other, and pass messages between each other. New term:
> multirealm zephyr is what I'm working on, where each client knows
> about the realms it cares about, and zephyr servers are totally blind
> to the existence of other realms.
A correction, to give credit where it's due, Jay Laefer implemented interrealm
Zephyr, and Dmitri Schoeman got it stable to the point where it worked; I only
cleaned the code up (quite a bit, but...) and integrated it into Zephyr 2.0.
-D
