Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers?

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ArbiterXero@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

The domain registry is NOT, and it’s categorised by various tld’s the scope of the routing is MUCH higher traffic.

Your cell phone is run by a provider and has maybe 0.0000001% as much lookups as routing would have.

These things are all done in various tree light structures to try and eliminate central points of failure . The Internet was designed to try and resist failure, and you are creating some central failure points.

Even if you created several of them, synchronisation issues would be Basically impossible to fix or take up unbelievable amounts of bandwidth

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