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From: wunder@hp-ses.SDE.HP.COM (Walter Underwood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: nodename restriction
Message-ID: <920037@hp-ses.SDE.HP.COM>
Date: 29 Aug 89 18:08:09 GMT
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Organization: HP SW Engineering Systems - Palo Alto, CA
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   But for consistency reasons I'd like to have a four field nodename,
   such as 'cityzoo.acs.umbc.edu'.  ...   I've seen some postings on the
   net from a 'four field node', so it has been done.

No, it hasn't been done.  The "nodename" command is ONLY for the
Network Services products, things you've probably never heard of, like
"dscopy".  Ever wonder what the "nftdaemon" and "nftserver" are?  They
are part of NFT, the dscopy service.

The NS nodename is limited to three parts of 16 characters each.
Inside HP, we try to keep the nodename related to the ARPA hostname.
For example, my workstation is set up like this:

   ARPA hostname: orac.sde.hp.com
   NS nodename:   orac.sde.hpcom

You don't need to do this, unless you want to use NS.  If you have
HP3000's around, you might want to use NS.  If you don't have them,
you don't need NS.

The NS nodename has no effect whatsoever on the ARPA services.

This is not clear in the man pages, but is is carefully explained in
the ARPA services manual, if I remember correctly (can't find one
right now).

wunder

PS: The "hostname" command may be stuck with System V limitations on
current releases.  I'm pretty sure that it allows long hostnames (255
characters) in HP-UX 7.0, since we have supported BIND in that release.