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From: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
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Subject: Re: Use Domain In Hostname Or Not?
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Date: 14 Feb 90 22:11:42 GMT
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Fully qualified domain names in the hostname is generally 4.3
behavior, as opposed to 4.2 which only had the first part.

Biggest hassle is that when you have names as long as ours, e.g.
dirichlet.math.lsa.umich.edu -- it's a hassle to have csh prompts
with the full name in it.  Also you'll tickle some bugs in some
vendors software (e.g. SunOS 4.0.3 lockd) where they have buffers
of less than MAXDNAME (arpa/nameser.h) to hold hostnames.
The csh business is fixable for new users but it's harder to
try to retrofit old users stuff piecemeal.

Which bugs are you running into -- I might be seeing the same
ones....

--Ed