> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't DNS help here a lot? DNS is only part of the picture. prefixes and addresses are stored in lots of places besides DNS - e.g. running applications, stacks, host configuration files, routers, firewalls, network management stations, and traffic monitors. There's no good mechanism for updating all of these, and DNS can only solve part of the problem.
for instance there's an inherent conflict between a host or server needing to assert its identity or service name (as many server hosts do) and the network trying to assign addresses (or even prefixes) to hosts (as many networks do). a reasonable renumbering solution needs to support some hybrid of these - neither extreme is inherently the right approach. Keith -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
