> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott
> Brim

> "peer" is also a nit - if you
> want an unknown someone to be able to contact you, you need to make
> yourself findable, whether the protocol design is p2p or not.  Otherwise
> you don't.

I also object to the notion that every host or application should be identified 
by name and not by address. In a peer to peer network, the peers can certainly 
have the other peers' IP addresses known to them. You don't need a DNS at all, 
in situations like this.

Matter of fact, I would suggest that the Client Identifier Option of DHCP is 
precisely for such scenarios. Where the unconfigured peer needs to be given a 
specific IP address, because that's the only way the other peers can find it.

Bert

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