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From: jordan@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Jordan Hayes)
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Subject: Re: Domains: Multiple names OK?
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Date: Tue, 2-Sep-86 13:39:21 EDT
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Summary: yes and no

Scot E. Wilcoxon <sewilco@mecc.UUCP> writes:

	Is it acceptable for one site to have more than one name?

I think it is. It's probably not an optimal solution, but it's
acceptable. I know it's not forbidden.

	If a site has a Domain name and is one more than one network
	then the site should have a name on each network, right?

Well, yes and no. The example you used was one of a machine in both
the UUCP world and the Internet world (you said ".EDU and .UUCP" but there
is no real .UUCP ... rehash). In any case, there are sites that are on
two networks and have separate names. Case in point is ames-titan.arpa
and "nike", two totally unrelated names on the same hardware. Rochester
does this too. Our configuration at nike will be changing soon but it
will remain confused for some time ... eventually, nike will become
ames and ames-titan.arpa will become ames.arpa (or, ames.arc.nasa.gov
when .ARPA goes away), so I would look for a consolidation into one
name, regardless of transport mechanisms.

/jordan