Thanks McTim, However, DNS is an IP look up system and re-director, where LISP is a programing language. MS has the major influence in the DNS system. We need a less single source dominated system. Our hope must come from the Open Source mavericks to provide the way. Lou On 8/21/2012 11:29 AM, McTim wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Carl Smith <[log in to unmask] > <mailto:[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