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Re: Thinking differently about names and addresses

2003-04-01 15:04:17
On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 13:08:26 -0800
Eliot Lear <lear(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com> wrote:

Keith Moore wrote:
HIP only solves part of the problem.  It lets you use something
besides an address as a host identity, but it doesn't provide any
way of mapping between that identity and an address where you can
reach the host.

That's not entirely true.  It doesn't give you a very scalable way to
do a reverse lookup, but forward lookups are quite possible with DNS.

nope.  DNS doesn't give you a way to map a HIP identifier into an IP
address.

Keith



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