Keith Moore wrote:
>>I agree with the last sentence, but knowing about SL addresses
>>tells you nothing at all about network topology. The two just
>>aren't related. Assigning SL addresses requires knowledge of
>>the topology (as does assigning global addreses), but to use
>>one doesn't. All the hosts do is use them.
>
>
> actually a distributed app does in some sense need to know
> about network topology in order to use SL addresses, because
> a component might send a referral using an SL address to another
> component that isn't at the same site. without some notion
> of topology the app has no idea which address to use in the
> referral. it's very much like the problem that occurs with NATs.
Is it good practice for such an app to use addresses directly, rather
than hostnames (that are then resolved through DNS into global addresses
anyway)? Perhaps this is an example of a bad use of SL but does it mean
that SL is inherently bad?
Regards,
Brett.
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