- From: Daniel LaLiberte <liberte@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 02:11:01 -0600 (CST)
- To: touch@isi.edu
- Cc: liberte@ncsa.uiuc.edu, uri@bunyip.com
touch@isi.edu writes: > IP numbers are not looked up. That's the point. > That's why they're "locations", rather than "names". IP numbers are looked up in router tables. Curiously, many people associate looking something up with it being a location rather than a name. The thing you look up is *located* in a table or data structure of some kind. > > ... As a > > matter of fact, you can look up IP numbers in a special branch of DNS. > > That's used for reverse-lookups, a somewhat superfluous function > of the DNS. That lookup is not needed to use the IP address. I understand. I only point this out to further blur what many people think of as the obvious distinction between names and locations. dan
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