Re: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))

[S Woodside]

On Monday, March 31, 2003, at 05:30  PM, Tony Hain wrote:

Let's assume that there is a FooBar server in SiteA.  If
another node in SiteA (NodeA) is communicating via a
multi-party application to a node in SiteB (NodeB), and wants
to refer NodeB to the FooBar server in SiteA, what does it do?
Send a name.
What if the address has no name? Suddenly running a DNS becomes a 
pre-requisite to running a network connected to the internet?

simon