In article <[email protected]> you wrote:
> how is this UUID that doesn't need to be touched by an admin, and will
> always work in all possible networks (including insane things like backup
> servers configured with the same name and IP address as the primary with
> NAT between them to allow them to communicate) generated?
>
> there are a lot of software packages out there that could make use of
> this.
It is hard to work in all cases :)
if you use v4 UUID they are a 128bit random bitstring, others depend on the
MAC (plus random).
Greetings
Bernd
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