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From: krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: uucp and the Apollo network
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Date: 24 Oct 88 17:09:09 GMT
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BAD IDEA! the `node_data/thishost file, along with the
`node_data/networks file, is used by TCP/IP to determine
the host's name and network connections. You're messing with
X-windows, rsh, rlogin, fpt, telnet, etc. in addition to playing
with UUCP. You can potentially break a lot of software. It's much
better to change your mailer's configuration file to hard-code
the gateway name. You only have to change 1 one in the network
(rather than 1 file on each node on the network), and you don't
break any other software.


 -- David Krowitz

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