[85825] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Tue Oct 18 02:23:32 2005
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0510171802020.3396@sheen.jakma.org>
Cc: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>,
David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>, Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
From: Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 23:23:00 -0700
To: Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>
>> 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
