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From: dce@mips.UUCP (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Hostname aliasing in HDB UUCP
Message-ID: <623@quacky.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Aug-87 20:35:02 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 25 20:35:02 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 28-Aug-87 00:38:59 EDT
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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In the past few months, an interesting problem has come up twice, and
I think it's time I found out the solution and documented it.

The situation is that system X wants to talk to system Y, while
calling it Z.

That is, the Systems file entry looks like:

	hp-cup Any ...

but the machine on the other side is actually named 'hpda'.

Does anyone know of any way to "alias" a Systems entry in this
way, or is it just unsafe?

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David Elliott		{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!decwrl!mips!dce