Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ncar!woods
From: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: two machines with same name
Message-ID: <27@ncar.ucar.edu>
Date: 18 Mar 88 02:27:25 GMT
References: <1040001@b-mrda.UUCP>
Reply-To: woods@handies.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods)
Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR, Boulder CO
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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.  

  If both names are in the uucp maps, then the map coordinators have
made an error. If not, then he who publishes first gets the name. If
you never published a map entry for your site, then it is not even
an "official" site and mail directed to it is likely to wind up in
California. Bottom line: choose unique names and PUBLISH them if
you want them to be accessible from the entire net.

--Greg