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From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Newsgroups: net.news.config
Subject: Duplicate site name "gandalf"
Message-ID: <455@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 28-Feb-85 12:40:34 EST
Article-I.D.: lsuc.455
Posted: Thu Feb 28 12:40:34 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 28-Feb-85 13:52:11 EST
Reply-To: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: att.nj1 and can.on - I didn't check whether news or just uucp



I sent mail by a pathalias-generated path, and found out that
pathalias was confusing two sites with the same name.  They are:

#N	gandalf
#S	
#O	AT&T Information Systems, Freehold (fj)
#C	chuck schwing
#E	gandalf!root
#T	(201)577-4432
#P	1H-118;Juniper Plaza - Route 9;Freehold, NJ 07728
#L	
#R	
#W	841022 ihnp4!action
#


and

#N	gandalf
#S	
#O	Gandalf Data Ltd.
#C	Dave Carr
#E	decvax!hcr!gandalf!carr
#T	(613) 225-0565, ext. 352
#P	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
#L	
#R	
#W	ksh per newsite 6/3/84
#
gandalf	hcr(POLLED)


It would seem that the Ontario one has a better claim to the name.
Since the AT&T one is AT&T, the conflict will go away when everybody
has domain addressing, but I thought I'd better report it.
(This has a vaguely familiar ring (no LOTR pun intended); has this
been reported before, maybe, and it was decided to let it be?)

I've mailed a copy of this to uucpmap and both #E addresses.
(I don't have a clean path to the AT&T gandalf; I'm trying ihnp4.)
I'm posting this to net.news.config because I think it should be of
interest even if not both sites are news sites (I didn't check that).

Mark Brader