Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!robohack!woods
From: woods@robohack.UUCP (Greg A. Woods)
Newsgroups: news.config
Subject: Re: Unregistered-but-referenced sites (was Re: deleted UUCP sites)
Summary: blow them away, or at least mark them dead
Keywords: uucp maps site
Message-ID: <1990Jan5.012105.22132@robohack.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 90 01:21:05 GMT
References: <4195@convex.UUCP> <30273@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com> <43496@improper.coherent.com> <1990Jan3.164811.5457@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <599@unmvax.unm.edu>
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In article <599@unmvax.unm.edu> lee@unmvax.cs.unm.edu (Lee Ward) writes:
> In article <1990Jan3.164811.5457@ddsw1.MCS.COM> karl@mcs.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:
> >In article <43496@improper.coherent.com> dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt) writes:
> >>In article <30273@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com> heiby@chg.mcd.mot.com (Ron Heiby) writes:
> >>So... consider what happens if some new site comes on line, and chooses
> >>a name for itself... say, "ilmss".  That name isn't reserved, it's up
> >>for grabs, and they take it.  They publish a map-file, reserving this
> >>name for themselves.
> >
> >The new "ilmss", however, can't tell that their choice of name is ALREADY 
> >TAKEN, since you would have mcdchg delete the declaration from their map 
> >entry!

Ah, but "ilmss" *isn't* allready taken.  The name is only reserved if
there is a complete map entry for the site.

> If someone wants to route through unmvax to a private link that is
> unregistered (there are some). They use:
> 
> 	private!name@unmvax

However, if the private link is mentioned, but not registered, it is
liable to end up getting lots of mail for the real "private".  The
only correct thing to do to entries mentioning private links is to
either delete them, or mark them dead.  They should NOT be there.
-- 
						Greg A. Woods

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