SV: panel error *** ORBit patch ***
- From: "Stefan Skoglund" <hlz522w tninet se>
- To: "gnome-list" <gnome-list gnome org>
- Subject: SV: panel error *** ORBit patch ***
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 15:16:19 +0200
-----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
>
>> > - The IP address pointed to by 'hostname' should reverse-resolve
>> > to a valid hostname (presumably, but not required to be, the FQDN)
>> Why not just use IPs?
>
>Why does the Internet need DNS at all?
>
>Even with no human intervention at all, there are still things like
>round-robin DNS and IPv6 to consider. (To get the IPv6 address, you need a
>hostname).
>
It is even worse.
For multi-homed hosts every interface has its own ip-adress.
The FQDN is usually the same.
This is part of the old classic network-adress routing.
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