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From: kurt@hi.unm.edu (Kurt Zeilenga)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Duplicate site names
Message-ID: <22341@hi.unm.edu>
Date: 2 Jan 88 06:51:00 GMT
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Reply-To: zeilenga@hc.dspo.gov (Kurt Zeilenga)
Organization: U. of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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Keywords: pathalias maps duplicates

>> > I ask everyone who is choosing a new site name to check the maps
>> > prior to coming to a final decisoon.  
>
>Yeah, and it'll get a lot worse before it gets better.  Now I'm working at
>a place that is installing all sorts of glorified terminals (Macs, IBM PCs,
>Sun and Apollo diskless workstations) that each masquerade as a "host" and
>need names.  Hundreds of them.  And this is just one company.  I can't tell
>them that all the good ones are taken, and they'll just have to settle for
>something like "qvx13j"; such bureaucratic monstrosities just elicit a lot
>of incredulous looks.

NO, you get yourself a domain name (registered, of course).  Then you
don't have to worry about conflicts with the outside world because your
fully qualified hostname will be unique since the domain name will be
unique.

> [context deleted]
-- 
	Kurt (zeilenga@hc.dspo.gov)