horton@harvard.ARPA (Nike Horton) (02/19/85)
> Mark Horton, on behalf of the "UUCP Project", > wants us all to keep our host names down to 6 characters. I believe that the important thing is to get the name significant in 6 characters, so that sites that only care about 6 won't die. It was my understanding that the bad people who have the 6 character restriction will let stuff through with longer names, but get confused if they have multiple similar entries in their L.sys. So we have the same problem that the "naughty" C compilers have. Some sites at harvard are handling this by prefixing site names with a h- (similar to stanford using su-). I also thought that as long as those offending sites don't communicate with anyone with longish names then they will also let it pass. (i.e. site 'bad' can communicate with 'good', and to 'foo-longer' via 'good') Unfortunately, we have just received some Data General MV 4000's with the same problem. When will people learn!! "The remote system's name can be any length but is truncated to the six leftmost characters". - DG Admin Guide (UUCP section) - I will let others complain to ATT about the price of Honeydanber UUCP; I'm going to yell at DG today :-). -- Nicholas Horton System Manager Cambridge, MA Aiken Computation Lab UUCP: {genrad,cbosgd}!wjh12!horton {seismo,ihnp4,allegra,ut-sally}!harvard!horton ARPA: horton@harvard BITNET: HARVUNXH%HORTON