And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)

Tony Li tony.li at tony.li
Tue Oct 18 06:23:00 UTC 2005


>
>> True enough, but unfortunately, it's not done in a way that we can  
>> make use of the identifier in the routing subsystem or in the  
>> transport protocols.
>>
>
> The transport protocols, well they generally act on behalf of  
> something which can do the lookup and supply transport with right  
> address, as long the DNS server does not require "who"->"where"  
> indirection ;).


The transport protocols unfortunately need the identifier in the  
packet to demux connections.

Tony





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