Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!epiwrl!epimass!jbuck From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin Subject: Re: two machines with same name Message-ID: <2009@epimass.EPI.COM> Date: 18 Mar 88 03:11:19 GMT References: <1040001@b-mrda.UUCP> Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 30 In article <1040001@b-mrda.UUCP> jim@b-mrda.UUCP (jim sadler) writes: >So what happens when two sites are using the same name ? We have a machine >by the name of portnoy. Its been around for awhile. while I was working on >the new maps, I noticed that there was a portnoy in california. > >So now what ? Wellllll, there's only one portnoy.UUCP. It's the one in the UUCP map. So if you hook up your portnoy to Usenet, you can't have it call itself portnoy.UUCP or chaos will result. You'll get their mail, etc. First one on the map gets the name. If you have a registered domain, you have no problem. Your portnoy can be portnoy.boeing.com or some such. Ideally, bang paths should be bang paths, but some sites insist on rerouting mail even if the path is valid. As a result, anyone attempting to mail to portnoy right now risks having mail go to the other portnoy even though the path is unambiguous. Especially if they mail through rutgers, the best-connected of the promiscuous rerouters. Grr, Mel. The good news on this score is that the new, soon-to-be-released whizbang version of Smail won't reroute bang paths. We had a room full of frustrated users stand up and cheer when that was announced. -- - Joe Buck {uunet,ucbvax,sun,}!epimass.epi.com!jbuck Old Internet mailers: jbuck%epimass.epi.com@uunet.uu.net