Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!gatech!uflorida!mailrus!emv From: emv@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Solution to news dup site names Message-ID: <638@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> Date: 17 Aug 88 19:53:44 GMT References: <1445@datapg.MN.ORG> Sender: usenet@mailrus.cc.umich.edu Reply-To: emv@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) Distribution: na Organization: University of Michigan Computing Center, Ann Arbor Lines: 17 In article <1445@datapg.MN.ORG> sewilco@DataPg.MN.ORG (Scot E Wilcoxon) writes: >News sites with the same name are invisible to each other. >Articles from one site "xyz" are not sent to a second site "xyz" because >the first "xyz" is found in the "Path" line. This is particularly bad >because all sites "xyz" may be hidden within private subdomains and >none can be found in public site lists. Then use full domain names in the news path header, not just short names. This is particularly important if you have large #s of internal workstations and you don't want to try to make them unique. Fully qualified names (like datapg.mn.org) are going to be unique for a long time. --Ed