RE: Multihoming Issues

"Michel Py" <michel@ARNEILL-PY.SACRAMENTO.CA.US> Mon, 02 September 2002 22:06 UTC

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> Caitlin Bestler wrote:
> IPv4 is silent on how the lower portion is formed. IPv6
> describes two techniques. Under IPv4 there is no reason
> to presume that the same host will have the same network
> identifier on multiple networks (other than the desire
> of some network administrators to maintain some shred of
> sanity). The method of generating the interface ID under
> IPv6 would appear to be independent of the number of
> identities that the network itself has.

I still fail to see the relation with DNS. What is the point you are
trying to make here?

Michel.