Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ho95e!wcs
From: wcs@ho95e.ATT.COM (Bill.Stewart.<ho95c>)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Registered sitenames
Keywords: registered hostnames, domains, maps
Message-ID: <2098@ho95e.ATT.COM>
Date: 4 Apr 88 03:07:25 GMT
References: <1590@sigma.UUCP> <4750002@hpscdc.HP.COM> <3191@hammer.TEK.COM> <90@ncar.ucar.edu>
Reply-To: wcs@ho95e.UUCP (46323-Bill.Stewart.<ho95c>,2G218,x0705,)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs 46133, Holmdel, NJ
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In article <90@ncar.ucar.edu> woods@hao.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods) writes:
:  For a domain with many sites, only the one site that imports news to
:the domain, and the domain itself, need to be registered.
	That helps a lot, but it doesn't do the whole job.  For
instance, what if you have local machine named "b.ucar.edu", which you
address locally as "b", and I register a machine named "b".
If you get a mail message for "joe@b" or "b!joe", who do you send it to?
Domains help, but they only solve the problem if everyone has one, and
if all transactions always use them.
-- 
#				Thanks;
# Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs 2G218, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs
# So we got out our parsers and debuggers and lexical analyzers and various 
# implements of destruction and went off to clean up the tty driver...