Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!wang!fitz From: fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Cnews pathnames Message-ID: Date: 4 Jun 90 22:13:21 GMT References: <1990May30.165503.12772@ucselx.sdsu.edu> <1990May30.234308.8428@utzoo.uucp> <1990Jun1.170730.5672@utzoo.uucp> Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA Lines: 26 henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: > Actually, life is simpler if you call your system "ucselx" and just > forget the domain business for news purposes. (Note that the From lines > are composed separately, using a different system name, so you can still > specify a domainist address for mailed replies.) To do this, either ucselx would have to be registered in the UUCP maps, or you take that chance that someone else, somewhere, will create a system named ucselx and you'll never receive any news that passes through it (and the other ucselx will never get any of your postings). We do the trick where all systems put "xxx.wang.com" in the Path:, and the gateway machine has "xxx/xxx.wang.com:" in the sys file, because I don't want to register every machine name inside Wang in the UUCP maps to guarantee its uniqueness. For systems like "ucselx", the danger is pretty minimal, but we've got systems with names like "jeeves", "tiger" and "sununix" (people here have very little imagination). It already seems like a problem to me that systems like snorkelwacker.mit.edu put "...!snorkelwacker!..." in the Path:, but aren't registered in the UUCP maps. Trying to use a flat namespace with no central registry is potential disaster. --- Tom Fitzgerald Wang Labs fitz@wang.com 1-508-967-5278 Lowell MA, USA ...!uunet!wang!fitz