At 10:35 AM 7/23/99 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Before I respond more fully to Roberto, I wanted to mention that DNS is
>used for many things beyond simply looking up IP addresses.
>
>For example, in Internet telephony (H.323), one of the ways of expressing
>the callee is using what looks like an e-mail address. The part of the
>callee name after the "@" is used in a DNS query to obtain a TXT record
>which, in turn, references a "gatekeeper" for the callee's H.323 zone.
>
>That is just one of several ways in which DNS is being used for things
>well beyond mapping of names to IP addresses.
>
>We have to be aware of these uses of DNS and not wear blinders about DNS
>like WIPO did.
>
>I also want to mention that in these days of web caches and other forms of
>proxy devices, DNS queries are often captured and manipulated in order to
>re-aim a client to a more convenient server for a particular service. In
>those situations, which are becoming, increasingly common, DNS is being
>used as sort of a yellow pages service lookup rather than a white pages
>address lookup.
>
For the benefit of dumb butt here, what's the IP size of the new IPv6 thing?
(Did I get that right?) It's not a "dotted quad," I take it, so what is
it? And
its capacity is 2 to the what?
Bill Lovell
> --karl--
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