[ih] early DNS, A paper that has something to to with the Internet

[Bob Purvy]

It wasn't unknowing. I worked with Jack, and went to several IETFs on
Oracle's dime, and led a WG.

On Tue, Jul 20, 2021, 2:30 PM Bill Woodcock via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

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> > On Jul 20, 2021, at 12:41 PM, Jack Haverty via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> > ...in the early 1990s, I was working at Oracle, and we had a similar
> need.   Database users (basically the hordes of people in corporations with
> some kind of terminal in front of them) wanted to connect to databases, by
> name. So we created some software called Oracle Names, which did pretty
> much the same things as DNS but would do it in any flavor of network and
> even across different networks by means of an IP gateway.
>
> Oracle was (perhaps unknowingly) paying for a significant amount of
> interesting Internet development in that era.  In 1994-1995 I built an
> anycast distribution infrastructure for Oracle, with FTP server clusters at
> two IXPs on the east coast, and two IXPs on the west coast, to distribute
> Oracle’s documentation and training materials, which were otherwise too
> slow and costly to download from any single point.  To the best of my
> knowledge, that was the first national-scale production anycast CDN.  I’d
> done smaller ones within California starting in 1989.
>
>                                 -Bill
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