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From: jsq@ut-sally.UUCP (John Quarterman)
Newsgroups: net.news.config
Subject: Re: Two sites with the same name ?????
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Date: Sat, 11-Feb-84 17:02:19 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 11 17:02:19 1984
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> 	>A more obvious problem: how is the new site to know of the coordinator
> 	>until he's been on the net (and flamed at ...) ?
> The site he hooks up to should provide him with the latest net.news.map
> contents and/or the routing map. By checking that against the chosen
> sitename you can be reasonably sure about the uniqueness of that name.
> -- 
> 	Piet Beertema
> 	CWI (Center for Math. & Comp. Science), Amsterdam
> 	...{decvax,philabs}!mcvax!piet

The site providing the connection should check the new name for uniqueness
against net.news.map and whatever mail maps are available *before* allowing
the new site to hook up.  If a new site does get connected with the same name
as one that connected earlier, other sites should refuse to use the name
and it should not be listed in the news and mail maps; public opinion
is the solution as in any good anarchy.
-- 
John Quarterman, CS Dept., University of Texas, Austin, Texas
jsq@ut-sally.ARPA, jsq@ut-sally.UUCP, {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!jsq