----- Original Message ----- > From: "Barry Shein" <b...@world.std.com>
> Well, George, you can take a new idea and run with it a bit, or just > resist it right from the start. > > We can map from host names to ip addresses to routing actions, right? > > So clearly they're not unrelated or independent variables. There's a > smooth function from hostname->ipaddr->routing. Ah. *This* is where you fell off the horse. Nope; the first one isn't smooth; it's *completely arbitrary*. The mapping is, in fact, DNS's raison d'etre. The second one has a relatively smooth mapping *at any given point in time*, but you can't fit a function to that; it is prone also to arbitrary changes over time. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274
