Eric Rescorla wrote:
> There are a number of situations where one wishes to authenticate
> clients based on their DNS names:
>
> (1) SMTP/TLS.
> (2) Secure remote backup.
>
> In such cases the clients often (though not always) have fixed IPs.
Well, I'll be happy when IPv6 is ubiquitous (coming any day now since 1996!).
Then we can dispense with kludges like DHCP and give globally unique identifiers
as addresses.
And what about multi-homed hosts? Or many IP addresses per host (using IP aliasing)?
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