Re: To address or NAT to address?

[Pyda Srisuresh <srisuresh at yahoo.com>]

--- Matt Crawford <crawdad at fnal.gov> wrote:
> > It seems to me that we may be able to recapture some aspects of end-to-end
> > transparency at the application level if addressing issues are focused on
> > host FQDNs, rather than IP addresses.
> 
> Forget about it.  Many of the same folks doing NAT also do a
> two-faced DNS which hides most of their names from the outside.  So a
> host inside such a site has no more idea of its global name than of
> its global address.
> 
> 
Its a different problem if you want to hide from outside access. That
is independent of whether you use IP address or FQDN to label the host.

regards,
suresh
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