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

"Matt Crawford" <crawdad@fnal.gov> Mon, 31 March 2003 21:51 UTC

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From: Matt Crawford <crawdad@fnal.gov>
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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> Let's assume that there is a FooBar server in SiteA.  If another
> node in SiteA (NodeA) is communicating via a multi-party application
> to a node in SiteB (NodeB), and wants to refer NodeB to the FooBar
> server in SiteA, what does it do?

I thought we agreed, completely outside of IPv6 concerns, that
shipping addresses in application data was bad. So NodeA refers
NodeB to foobar-server.sitea.org. Q.E.F.

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