[comp.unix.large] Implementing full name addressing for large sites?

jessea@dynasys.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher) (11/01/90)

I would like to implement full name addressing on a company wide basis
for a fairly large site.  The site consists of a couple Pyramids with
about 500 or so smaller sites country-wide.  How could I go about doing this?
What what the catches involved (like people having the same names)?  Is
there any software out there that will do this readily that can be implemented
on the Pyramid(s) but still be used by 386 based unixes?

I'm not sure if this is a related question or not.  But, I've heard of
a package called "yellow pages".  Could someone tell me what this is and
if it could be used in solving the above problem?

Thanks in advance.

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aglew@crhc.uiuc.edu (Andy Glew) (11/06/90)

>I would like to implement full name addressing on a company wide basis
>for a fairly large site. 

Time yet again for my post praising "ph", the nameserver written by
the folks at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's CSO.  It
permits email to be sent to many approximations of a person's full
name (eg. andy-glew, krazy-glue, a-glew all work to send mail to me
@uiuc.edu); in case of collision it replies asking the sender to be a
bit more specific.  It can be used as a database query system, plugged
into whois, finger, etc.

You can get ph nameserver from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu:net/qi via anonymous ftp.


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Andy Glew, a-glew@uiuc.edu [get ph nameserver from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu:net/qi]