Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu!karl From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Solution to news dup site names Message-ID: <20246@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 18 Aug 88 16:24:56 GMT References: <1445@datapg.MN.ORG> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: na Lines: 19 In-reply-to: sewilco@datapg.MN.ORG's message of 17 Aug 88 17:13:17 GMT sewilco@datapg.MN.ORG 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. Why not just have fully-qualified domain names in the Path: header? This eradicates the problem entirely. We found it necessary to make sure we were doing this, because we have one of the (many) "tut"s on the network, but the "real" "tut" (in terms of UUCP map registration) is tut.fi, across the pond in Finland. Many months ago we did appropriate things to defs.h to force the inclusion of full domain names in all of our hosts' postings. The result is Path: headers which sometimes get extraordinarily long (look at this article, NNTP-posted from my Sun 3/50 through our Tut, sigh), but they are unquestionably fully-qualified and unique. --Karl