> From: Niall Richard Murphy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 08:55:15PM +1000, Robert Elz wrote:
>
> > | An unplanned deficit of IPv6: operating without DNS will be
much,
> much
> > | harder. (Particularly if you can't type ":" quickly)
>
> > That wasn't unplanned, and isn't a defecit - ridding the world of
the
> > use of literal IP addresses is one of the things needed to make
> > renumbering conceivable (if not by itself make it easy).
>
> Perhaps I was exaggerating for the sake of effect :-)
>
> I feel there will still be a need to type IPv6 addresses in some
> circumstance no matter what, unfortunately...
We should not equate "operating without the DNS" and "typing addresses
by hand." NAPSTER or Gnutella operate without the DNS; SIP only requires
DNS entries for the proxies. These systems just exchange addresses as
part of their normal operation.
-- Christian Huitema
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