Re: Competing Domain-Name Registries Creating Tower of Cyber-Babel

[Dave Crocker]

At 01:11 PM 7/6/2001, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
>Ned writes:
>
> > There are all sorts of ways IP addresses can be
> > shared by multiple machines which you may or may
> > not choose to use.
>
>Not if you are running pure IP.  Either you can uniquely identify each 
>machine,
>or you can't, but you cannot have it both ways.

You are confused about the meaning of several statements being made.

For each machine to have a unique IP address, yes each must have an IP 
address that no other shares.

However this does not prevent machines from sharing IP addresses ALSO.

d/


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