At 9:23 PM 2/15/96 -0500, Adam Shostack wrote:

DNS names are not IP numbers.

IP numbers are not portable, DNS names are. You can move toad.com anywhere on the network, but you can't move 140.174.2.1 anywhere on the network.

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