On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, David Howe wrote: > I think what I am trying to say is - given a "normal" internet user > using IPv4 software that wants to connect to someone "in the cloud", how > does he identify *to his software* the machine in the cloud if that > machine is not given a unique IP address? few if any IPv4 packages can > address anything more complex than a IPv4 dotted quad (or if given a DNS > name, will resolve same to a dotted quad)
You don't. What you'll need is an extension to the current software, which is woefully inadequate for distributed/cloud/grid processing. It was never designed to do this sort of stuff. Plan 9 solves all these, plus you get to keep your IPv4 and IPv6 (not that it's of any real use in that environment). -- ____________________________________________________________________ We don't see things as they are, [EMAIL PROTECTED] we see them as we are. www.ssz.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anais Nin www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------