- From: <touch@isi.edu>
- Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 09:16:13 -0800
- To: touch@isi.edu, liberte@ncsa.uiuc.edu
- Cc: uri@bunyip.com
> From liberte@sdgmail.ncsa.uiuc.edu Wed Feb 26 00:11:16 1997 > > 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. But not translated there. > 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. Only when you replace the thing looked up. Joe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Touch - touch@isi.edu http://www.isi.edu/~touch/ ISI / Project Leader, ATOMIC-2, LSAM http://www.isi.edu/atomic2/ USC / Research Assistant Prof. http://www.isi.edu/lsam/
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