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Re: The internet architecture

2008-12-08 04:15:31
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 09:33:36PM +0900,
 Masataka Ohta <mohta(_at_)necom830(_dot_)hpcl(_dot_)titech(_dot_)ac(_dot_)jp> 
wrote 
 a message of 16 lines which said:

The problem to represent a host with raw addresses is that they
can't represent a host with multiple addresses,

OK

supporting of which is useful and often required, for example, for
DNS and SMTP clients.

"Required"? Neither DNS nor SMTP requires that. I'm not even sure it
is good practice.
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