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From: jordan@ucbvax.ARPA (Jordan Hayes)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: ARPA hosts in pathalias format
Message-ID: <10227@ucbvax.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 28-Aug-85 19:21:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.10227
Posted: Wed Aug 28 19:21:11 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 30-Aug-85 11:07:52 EDT
References: <6900006@mirror.UUCP>
Reply-To: jordan@ucbvax.UUCP (Jordan Hayes)
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Organization: University of California at Berkeley
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Summary: EEK!


In article <6900006@mirror.UUCP> rs@mirror.UUCP writes:
>
># Here is the ARPA hosts table, in pathalias format.
># This comes from "Version 474, August 21, 1985"
># Created by Rich $alz (mirror!rs).
>ARPA = {
>a-lhi-bbn-01, a-lhi-col-02, a-lhi-sri-03, a20, acc, acc-santbrbr,
>acc-unix, accat-tac, ace, acf1, acf2, acf3, acf4, acf5, acf6, acf7,

...silly boy... can you say "namespace collision" ??! You have no right
to put those hosts names in your pathalias database. There are many
sites in the internet that have names that "look" like UUCP sites
but aren't (and sillier ones, like rochester that gets really confusing...)

moral: in a flat namespace you can't cross network boundries

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UC Berkeley                       ucbvax!jordan
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