On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 12:41:56PM -0500, Kavi, Prabhu wrote:
No, think of this as a resolution step that happens in a matter analogous to DNS resolution, but for IP<->IP address translation.
At the beginning of a session, a translation request is made to resolve to the logical address (and all IP addresses are considered logical at first, just like all telephone addresses are considered logical until they are resolved). The translation is made, and the physical IP address is cached and used for the session.
Obviously, end stations do not request this translation today so it would first require a protocol definition.
This suffers from exactly the same problems wrt address portability that DNS does, doesn't it? Looks to me like you just described DNS, but used an IP address instead of /[a-zA-Z0-9-\.]+/. Joe