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From: tim@ora.UUCP (Tim O'Reilly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Hostname aliasing in HDB UUCP
Message-ID: <652@ora.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 18:12:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: ora.652
Posted: Thu Aug 27 18:12:44 1987
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Summary: myname entry will solve the reverse problem

In article <623@quacky.UUCP>, dce@mips.UUCP (David Elliott) writes:
> 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?

I believe there is a "myname" option in HDB that will let
you do the reverse of this.  That is, in your example,
hpda can have a definition in a Permissions file entry for
you that says when you call, myname=hp-cup.   I don't think
there is a way to do this from your end.  

I've never tried this, so let me know if it works.

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