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- From: SGML@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.sgml
- Subject: Re: ARCSGML
- Message-ID: <19921224.002@erik.naggum.no>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 09:22:23 GMT
- References: <RMUGELE.92Dec15070511@oasun1.oracle.com> <1992Dec18.213739.29902@informix.com>
- Reply-To: Erik Naggum <enag@ifi.uio.no>
- Lines: 38
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- Robert Weinberg <robertw@informix.com> writes:
- :
- | Here are some recent listings I pulled from an Archie site. ...
- :
- | Host slembe.ifi.uio.no (129.240.88.1)
- | Last updated 03:59 11 Dec 1992
-
- Aha! So that's why lots of people pound on poor old slembe!
-
- slembe.ifi.uio.no is an aging Sun 3/280, and used to off-load ifi.uio.no
- when that machine was also a poor old Sun 3/280. ftp.ifi.uio.no pointed
- to slembe at this time. I don't remember how long ago ftp.ifi.uio.no
- started pointing to ifi.uio.no, but it's more than six months ago, soon
- after we upgraded it to a Sun 4/75.
-
- _Please_ use FTP.IFI.UIO.NO, and please help stamp out this old record.
- slembe is likely to expire in the near future, but ftp.ifi.uio.no has
- always worked and will always work.
-
- I find it very sad that Archie counter-acts the use of aliases to move
- services around on machines as they are upgraded. And don't use IP
- addresses for reference purposes. One significant effect of domain
- names is to be able to keep the name while changing the number.
-
- The morale of the story is to use FTP.IFI.UIO.NO, and let the domain
- name system (DNS) figure out which machine this is, and where it is.
- (Software that doesn't use the DNS for name lookups have no business on
- the Internet, anyway, and should be fought with all means available.)
-
- If anybody knows how to tell Archie, I'd be delighted to learn about it.
-
- Best regards,
- </Erik>
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