Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site mcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!mcvax!piet From: piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema) Newsgroups: net.news.config Subject: Re: Two sites with the same name ????? Message-ID: <5681@mcvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 06:03:27 EST Article-I.D.: mcvax.5681 Posted: Tue Feb 7 06:03:27 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Feb-84 23:39:43 EST References: <64@down.UUCP> <295@cdi.UUCP> Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 9 >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