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From: dave@uwvax.UUCP (Dave Cohrs)
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Subject: Re: Name space explosion -- first tremors
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Date: Fri, 19-Jul-85 11:47:50 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 19 11:47:50 1985
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>         I just point this out as an example of what is wrong with the
> idea of a pathaliases data base containing paths to all known sites on
> all known nets.

I agree that pathalias, as it currently exists has problems, especially
for a site like any here at U of Wisconsin, where we are on (pick n):
USENET, ARPAnet, BITNET, CSNET (sort of) and probably others I don't
know of.  The 4.3 Bind server doesn't do it either, from what I can
tell.  It will tell me the Internet address of a site, but how about
giving me the address of the uucp site dino at wisconsin (which can't
work, for no better reason than that UUCP isn't a domain)?  If pathalias
had the idea of a domain name-space incorporated with it, I think
the problems would be less.

Speaking of duplicate sitenames, has anyone else noticed that there is
a site named odin both in NJ and somewhere in Great Britain?  What's worse
is that pathalias thinks that the fastest way to get to another site
on the localnet in GB containing odin is through NJ.
-- 
Dave Cohrs
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