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From: gore@eecs.nwu.edu (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: new terminal names
Message-ID: <7080013@eecs.nwu.edu>
Date: 9 Apr 89 22:00:01 GMT
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Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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Is there any particular reason why we have to enumerate every piece of
computer hardware in the world?

For instance, the domain application wants host type and OS type for the
hosts on which the domain's nameservers run.  What on Earth for?

Jacob Gore				Gore@EECS.NWU.Edu
Northwestern Univ., EECS Dept.		{oddjob,chinet,att}!nucsrl!gore