[news.misc] Internet Names versus USENET Names

richr@ai.ARPA (Richard Rosenthal) (05/09/88)

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Please provide comments to the following:

- I receive and send news only using the Internet.

- The name of the machine running news just changed
  from:  etl.arpa
    to:  ai.etl.army.mil

- The various pieces of news software pick-off the machine name
  using hostname(), thus, the news runs on machine name "ai".

STATEMENT:  ai does not seem like a good name to be passing around
	    USENET style (flat name space) in places such as the
	    path header of articles.  etl was not a great name
	    but it was better than ai.

Should I hard wire a machine name something like "ai-etl-army-mil"?

How are other similar sites handling this?

As the American Express ad says, "What will you do?  What will you do?"

-- 
Richard Rosenthal                            | ARPANET:  richr@etl.arpa
US Army Engineer Topographic Laboratories    | UUCP:     ???
Ft. Belvoir, VA 22060-5546                   | PHONE:    +1 202 355 2830

richr@ai.ARPA (Richard Rosenthal) (05/09/88)

And yes I know that the From: line and the Article: line are
busted in the articles that I am posting.  I am in the process
of fixing that.

-- 
Richard Rosenthal                            | ARPANET:  richr@etl.arpa
US Army Engineer Topographic Laboratories    | UUCP:     ???
Ft. Belvoir, VA 22060-5546                   | PHONE:    +1 202 355 2830

wisner@eddie.MIT.EDU (Bill Wisner) (05/12/88)

That's easy. Make your news software always use the name "ai.etl.army.mil",
even in Path lines. Check defs.h carefully; I think it has some provision
for this. Although I could be wrong.

..b