On Fri, 14 May 2010 13:53:14 -0700, Patrick Elliott wrote:

> On 5/14/2010 1:12 AM, Invisible wrote:
>>> Yes. Who served the IP address to your machine? Time Warner San Diego?
>>> I doubt it.
>>
>> AFAIK, IP addresses are assigned by a central allocation agency.
>>
>> Sure, you don't usually talk to them directly; usually you use one of
>> the IP addresses from the block assigned to your ISP. But my point is,
>> you can't just pick a random number out of the air and try to use that
>> as your IP address. It won't work.
> Mind, in principle, IPV6 could have each "device" us its own IP, kind of
> like routing to you via MAC address. But.. In a practical sense, its
> still the same DNS system being used for it.

That's one of the nice features of IPv6 (taken from IPX, actually, from 
what I've read, that essentially did the same thing).

Jim

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