Hello Robert!

23 Sep 04 18:37, you wrote to David Drummond:

 DD|>> The MAC address of your machine, or your router? I have multiple
 DD|>> machines behind my router. Which MAC do you suggest my ISP is
 DD|>> using?

 RC> That's your system.  That is not necessarily everyone's system.  You
 RC> are making assumptions without qualification.

Every piece of of network capable hardware, has a mac address.

Your cable/dsl ISP uses the mac address of your modem to grant you access
to their network.

On my wireless access point, I use mac addresses to grant access to specific devices.

 DD|>> There is no connection between my DNS service and Michael's MAC
 DD|>> address. My DNS simply redirects any enquiries to his FQDN. It's
 DD|>> up to the "caller" to resolve that.

 RC> Technically, what is the difference?  This is a petty argument with
 RC> little merrit.  In the end, your machine was used to connect to his
 RC> machine.  That there was a stop on the way is irrelevent.  It is still
 RC> an unecessary use of bandwidth and the real issue remains broken.

Its tee-totally unfucking believable that you and Grant continue to display
your ignorance on how DNS works..

Domain Name Servers merely resolve address names into IP addresses..

DNS servers are NOT proxy servers.

My computer to my ISP's DNS server:

[Thick New York Accent]

yo DNS server, what is the IP address of hub2000.darktech.org?

DNS server to my computer:

[Hal2000 voice]

Dave, please dave, oh ahemm its 24.102.43.148

Then off I go to 24.102.43.148

Its a friggin ROADMAP!

No connection is being made via the computer running the DNS server.

No extra bandwidth is consumed based on the DNS server used to resolve an IP address.

Good grief!

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