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From: karl@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Duplicate site names
Message-ID: <3569@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 29 Dec 87 03:52:10 GMT
References: <872@uop.edu>
Organization: OSU
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In-reply-to: robert@uop.edu's message of 28 Dec 87 18:02:02 GMT


robert@uop.edu writes:
   I posted this to another group, but since there is a discussion of
   duplicate names going here, what about tut?
   There is a finnish computer named tut, and recently I have noticed a
   north-american machine with the same name.

That's us, on tut.cis.ohio-state.edu, a Pyramid 98x which is the
central machine of Ohio State Computer Science.  Due to the fact that
references to our Tut are always properly domain-qualified, it is not
(or should not be) any problem.  Our Tut always refers to himself by
full domain name in all mail-related things, and the only other place
where his name is mentioned is in outbound Path: lines in news
headers, where he shows up as a neighbor of osu-cis and bgsuvax, thus
assuring his uniqueness within the frame of reference.

There was a problem a month or so ago, where some things coming from
Europe were getting bounced around a bit randomly (from Sweden to
UUNET to both OSU and Finland...sigh) but I believe that was taken
care of.  And I didn't have anything to do with any fix that had to do
with mis-re-routing UUCP stuff to Finland; what was hurting us was a
bit of bogosity on my part in my sendmail.cf relative to a DEC-20
here.

You say you mentioned this somewhere else; I didn't see it.  Where?
-- 
Karl