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From: soley@ontenv.UUCP (Norman S. Soley)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,ont.uucp
Subject: duplicate site names
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Date: 22 Sep 88 17:40:27 GMT
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Organization: Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Toronto
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Yet another duplicate site name kiddies. In the most recent u.can.on.1
there appeared a site called leibniz ay Bell-Northern Research.
However it seems that leibniz is already a "ghost site" in AT&T and 
appears in the map for the att psuedo-machine. 

I normally would have just brought this up with the site itself and
our local map co-ordinator but it raises another question. All of the
AT&T machines are supposed to be part of the .att.com domain but they
still list all of their leaf nodes by their "undomained" name. Is this
really necessary? The only reason I can see for not cutting the att
map entry back to only the necessary information to have it function
as a gateway (i.e. listing only those sites that maintain outside
connections) is that in an organization the size of AT&T it might be
very difficult to assure that all of the 1000 or so leaf nodes are
spitting out fully qualified domain names on their news and mail. 

Any comments?

-- 
Norman Soley - Data Communications Analyst - Ontario Ministry of the Environment
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