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Re: Competing Domain-Name Registries Creating Tower of Cyber-Babel

2001-07-06 15:10:03
At 01:11 PM 7/6/2001, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Ned writes:

> There are all sorts of ways IP addresses can be
> shared by multiple machines which you may or may
> not choose to use.

Not if you are running pure IP. Either you can uniquely identify each machine,
or you can't, but you cannot have it both ways.

You are confused about the meaning of several statements being made.

For each machine to have a unique IP address, yes each must have an IP address that no other shares.

However this does not prevent machines from sharing IP addresses ALSO.

d/


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