Re: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Wed, 02 April 2003 17:09 UTC

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Subject: Re: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))
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> of course it is possible to write apps that do not use DNS, but this is
> rarely done.

why not just embed the ip addresses in the data payloads?  death to
nats!  :-)