[Discussion] What are we making? -- CLIENT Side

[Jeremy]

I would have to agree with this and would venture to say a custom
indexed binary format would be best for this, and not a plain text xml
file.  Much like Maxminds GeoIP and ASN database files.

--jeremy

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Frank Knobbe <frank at knobbe.us> wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 14:30 -0500, Martin Holste wrote:
>> Right, but I envision the XML to be the source that scripts would
>> parse into whatever is needed, like router config, dns blocklists,
>> host files, search engine blacklists, etc.  The key would be to create
>> a standard capable of being specific enough to feed the lowest common
>> demoninator.
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> Just be aware that there are lots and lots of hostile IP's. I'm not sure
> XML is the proper format to deliver those since that data file would
> balloon quite drastically :)
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> -Frank
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