On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 11:14:13PM +0100, Kim Jensen wrote: > The IP packet only contain some primitive information - if you wish to deal > with names, then you have to use DNS. You can't store the name information in > the packet header. Not quite sure what you mean by this? I've set up the DNS so that box1 and box2 both point to an IP (albeit the same one as I only have the one) - an A record on the DNS server. > I can recommend that you read about IP headers if you wish to know more about > the construction of these magic little packets :-) I understand bits of it, but obviously not enough. :) Guess I should get reading! James -- James O'Gorman email: james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | web: www.netinertia.co.uk Whom the gods would destroy, they first teach BASIC.
