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Re: The internet architecture

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Mon, 08 December 2008 09:15 UTC

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Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:14:59 +0100
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: The internet architecture
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References: <C15AE32B-E564-4C93-86FF-40EF203E673A@mpi-sws.org> <49382030.5020704@network-heretics.com> <2788466ED3E31C418E9ACC5C316615572FFBEF@mou1wnexmb09.vcorp.ad.vrsn.com> <49384BCF.2080600@network-heretics.com> <2788466ED3E31C418E9ACC5C316615572FFBF3@mou1wnexmb09.vcorp.ad.vrsn.com> <493850D8.7090908@network-heretics.com> <20081205133133.GC14834@nic.fr> <493A7120.2070000@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
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On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 09:33:36PM +0900,
 Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> wrote 
 a message of 16 lines which said:

> The problem to represent a host with raw addresses is that they
> can't represent a host with multiple addresses,

OK

> supporting of which is useful and often required, for example, for
> DNS and SMTP clients.

"Required"? Neither DNS nor SMTP requires that. I'm not even sure it
is good practice.
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