Thanks Andrei,

I'm showing my age now.  The problem arose that NICS sometimes have 
duplicate MAC addresses from different and sometimes the same 
manufactures.  Whether or not that problem still exists???

Lou


On 8/22/2012 6:13 AM, Andrei Barburas wrote:
> I think it's manageable once "everything" runs on IPv6, then literally 
> everything can have a unique IP, including domain names.
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> Indeed, the Internet worked before DNS, but then there wasn't the 
> problem of running out of IP addresses, and probably shared hosting 
> was also not part of the "deal".
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> I always wondered, how come the MAC addresses of adapters never really 
> took off in terms of using them to their full potential.
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> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Avri Doria <[log in to unmask] 
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>     On 22 Aug 2012, at 10:34, Andrei Barburas wrote:
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>     > Two or more domain names can share the same IP address and not
>     every domain/site has a unique IP address. As for the Internet
>     working without the DNS, it is true when you refer to IPv6, not IPv4.
>     >
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>     the Internet worked before DNS and I expect it would work without
>     it, thought there would need to be some set of mechanisms for
>     turning structured human intelligible names into the structured
>      digit based names commonly referred to as numbers (aka addresses).
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>     it is true as we still don't know how to route on urls, we still
>     need a mechanism to translate between the names we humans are
>     comfortable with and the names that the software is designed for.
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>     not sure why this is not the case for IPv6 as well.
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>     avri
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