[356] in Zephyr_Comments
re: changing addresses
jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Aug 29 10:41:45 1989
The problem is that people are interpreting a portion of the unique ID
field as the host address. (Unfortunately, the server does this at times,
also...but it could probably avoid it with some careful thought.) The
field should really be treated as an opaque field, and not interpreted
as a host id. The only reason for using the host address in that field is
that it makes generating network-wide unique ID's really easy.
John
