Re: Thinking differently about names and addresses

[Keith Moore <moore at cs.utk.edu>]

On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 13:08:26 -0800
Eliot Lear <lear at cisco.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