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Re: (Non)-Uniqueness of Net Names

  • To: Daniel Karrenberg < >
  • From: (Martijn Roos Lindgreen)
  • Date: Wed, 07 Jul 93 11:03:10 +0200
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>   > The most useful reason for their being there IMHO is to be able to build
>   > an /etc/networks file from them.  This means, of course, they need to
>   > be unique.
> 
> I thought we were beyond flat file directories *on a global scale*.

Not really, we use the /etc/networks file for our IP-accounting
as a last resort if part of the DNS system is out of order.

Martijn.
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