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On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Carl Smith <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>  The DNS problem and reason for confusion is due to limitations imposed
> during the infancy of development stages of machine inter-connectivity.
> Basically, IP is insufficient to grant each machine a unique identity. The
> limited IP addresses are licensed to master networks which in turn are
> sub-netted to machines which only have a local identity slaved to the
> master.
>
> Ultimately, we need a unique ID for each machine which is not slaved or
> controlled by a master.
>


Is this a DNS issue or an ID/Locator problem?


If so, LISP may be what you want to look at here, not the DNS.


-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route
indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel


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