% > > 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. % % Not all addresses are published in DNS. % DNS isn't a requirement for IP either. % % Greets, % Jeroen
Quoth Steve... "There are no urgent DNS problems" Are the apps for which IPv6 is enabled that -can not- use address literals? If so, then Steve is wrong and the DNS has become critical infrastructure to the working of the Internet. Otherwise, we should trapese down the path of separation of topology locator from stack identifier. and then revisit the DNS to see if its best used as a lookup service between these two things... :) --bill Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or otherwise).