[zeromq-dev] Improving message patterns

[Martin Sustrik]

On 04/13/2011 09:26 AM, Martin Sustrik wrote:

> Ah, I should have said IP+DNS rather than just IP. Sorry.

I would suggest looking at the design of HTTP, which is pretty similar 
to the "send-to-address" pattern we are discussing.

HTTP is successful because it doesn't try to reinvent the wheel. It uses 
DNS to resolve the name of the site rather than managing a global 
namespace of its own. Then it uses IP (via TCP) to route the message to 
the destination. It's not concerned with nodes in the middle. It treats 
the connection to the host as a single hop, leaving the details of 
routing over the Internet to L3.

Martin