> a6 wasn't even a start of a solution to the renumbering problem. > at best, it was a distraction, and a disaster waiting to happen. i agree to disagree. > note that a6 wouldn't have done anything to relieve the burden > associated with the case you cited - a host changing its network > interface. true enough, but you can bet that if there were dns support for the macroscopic problem, then i would be pushing some kind of dns support for the microscopic problem as well. as it is, there's no foundation for it, other than campus-wide /128 "host" routes which would scale poorly. -- Paul Vixie