[HECnet] Integrating with the Italian network.

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2011-11-26 15:37, Bob Armstrong wrote:
Johnny wrote:
That is not really a big issue. DECnet do not have a requirement for a
coherent nodename database. Every machine can have its own.

    This is technically true, but it's really not very useful to have a
network with duplicate node names.   After all, if I post a message saying
"phone me on ABC::" or "copy these files from XYZ::" and half the users have
a different ABC or XYZ, then people are not going to be happy.

Yeah. That is very true. However, you could just have a subset that is "common", and then have your own names for local machines that noone else cares about, and name conflict between such machines wouldn't be an issue.

But that is up to people to decide how they want it. I like it better to have a global name space, and all my machines pick the nodename database from MIM so I have them as much in synch as possible. I occasionally also ping people when I notice nodes for which I have no name, but from which communication have been visible.

    Sure, it may be that the Italian guys never access our nodes and vice
versa, but if that's true then what's the point in integrating?

Yup.

P.S. Does anybody have a list of the nodes on the Italian network?

I can probably get a list... But how about exploring if they'd be interested in hooking up first maybe?

	Johnny

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