The DNS problem

Carl Smith lectriclou at HOTMAIL.COM
Wed Aug 22 23:07:17 CEST 2012


Nicolas,

To bring you up to date of all the power and influence of the Microsoft,
IBM and Intel consortium would be outside the resources and intent of
this forum, I believe.  But I am sure there are many Internet references
available at your finger tips.

with respect,
Lou

On 8/22/2012 4:12 PM, Nicolas Adam wrote:
> I'm pretty sure it refers to microsoft but -- and I don't usually
> display an over-exuberance of love for ms --  I fail to see how it
> [sic] has the major influence in the DNS system.
>
> Nicolas
>
> On 22/08/2012 4:04 PM, Kerry Brown wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure who or what you mean by "MS"?
>>
>> Kerry Brown
>>
>> *From:*NCSG-Discuss [mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] *On Behalf
>> Of *Carl Smith
>> *Sent:* August-22-12 12:59 PM
>> *To:* NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>> *Subject:* Re: [NCSG-Discuss] The DNS problem
>>
>> Thanks McTim,
>>
>> However, DNS is an IP look up system and re-director, where LISP is a
>> programing language.  MS has the major influence in the DNS system.
>> We need a less single source dominated system.  Our hope must come
>> from the Open Source mavericks to provide the way.
>>
>> Lou
>>
>> On 8/21/2012 11:29 AM, McTim wrote:
>>
>>     On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Carl Smith
>>     <lectriclou at hotmail.com <mailto:lectriclou at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     The DNS problem and reason for confusion is due to limitations
>>     imposed during the infancy of development stages of machine
>>     inter-connectivity. Basically, IP is insufficient to grant each
>>     machine a unique identity. The limited IP addresses are licensed
>>     to master networks which in turn are sub-netted to machines which
>>     only have a local identity slaved to the master.
>>
>>     Ultimately, we need a unique ID for each machine which is not
>>     slaved or controlled by a master.
>>
>>
>>
>>     Is this a DNS issue or an ID/Locator problem?
>>
>>
>>     If so, LISP may be what you want to look at here, not the DNS.
>>
>>
>>     --
>>     Cheers,
>>
>>     McTim
>>     "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is.
>>     A route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
>>
>

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