Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ginosko!usc!apple!bbn!news From: news@bbn.COM (News system owner ID) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Pilot Project: Hosts Table To Be Available Over Internet Message-ID: <47302@bbn.COM> Date: 24 Oct 89 22:04:40 GMT References: <[A.ISI.EDU]21-Oct-89.15:24:28.CERF> <360@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: pplacewa@capella.bbn.com (Paul W. Placeway) Distribution: usa Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA Lines: 26 bernstei@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes: < We also encourage all sites to move to a distributed database if possible. < Our hosts table is aimed at sites that do not have reliable DNS access. < < ---Dan Bernstein, bernstei@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu As a service to the SOA of Ohio-State.edu (among others), I feel obliged to point out that the "we" in this series of statements is the _Royal_ "We", rather than one indicating any offical part of the Ohio State University. The people in charge there really do understand why this is, in general, a Bad Thing. In other words: g/We/s//I/g g/Our/s//My/g Now, if someone wants to do something more useful, one could make the tools for collecting and verifying such a host table, so that those without DNS service could "fake it" in some quasi-reasonable way... -- Paul Placeway formerly at cis.ohio-state.edu, speaking as an alumnus (i.e. _not_ for BBN)