On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 02:44:39PM -0700,
Michel Py <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us> wrote
a message of 26 lines which said:
> > Dave Crocker wrote:
> > 5. Concern: Not all machines have domain names.
> > Response: _No_ machines have whatever the alternative might be.
...
> 6. Concern: the use of identifiers has been made necessary to compensate
> for shortcomings in the existing routing. Using DNS for routing purposes
> is both a layer violation and a magnet for circular reference issues.
I cannot read in Dave Crocker's mind but I do not think he suggested
to use DNS names for routing. Quite the contrary. Fred Baker explained
it well:
>So, as I understand it (and having read through the MAST paper), what you
>are proposing is a Layer 3.5 or maybe Layer 4 Session-like Layer in which
>the FQDNs are used for global node identification initially to set up a more
>compact temporary node identifier.
So, the DNS names will only be used at the setup stage, not in actual
forwarding of packets.
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