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Re: AT&T Public Policy Research -- hiring for cypherpunks
At 9:23 PM 2/15/96 -0500, Adam Shostack wrote:
>DNS names are not IP numbers.
>
>IP numbers are not portable, DNS names are. You can move toad.com
>anywhere on the network, but you can't move 140.174.2.1 anywhere on
>the network.
FYI - IP portability, both in the sense of disconnecting in one place and
reconnecting in another and in the sense of keeping a TCP connection alive
while moving from place to place are design goals of IPv6
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