[HECnet] Effects of Rogue Duplicate HECnet Node?

[Paul Koning]

> On Mar 7, 2020, at 12:41 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
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> The ability to remove nodes from the nodename database works fine in pretty much all OSes I know of, except for the PDP-10 world.
> In VMS and RSX, it's NCP CLEAR NODE node ALL, for example, for the current running system. In VMS you use PURGE in NCP for the permanent database, while in RSX, you use PURGE, but in CFE, which is the configuration file editor, for the permanent database.
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> I think RSTS/E does it all through NCP, like in VMS, but I guess Paul can tell for sure.

Correct.  RSTS (DECnet/E) fairly closely follows the network management architecture, and in particular it has the volatile and permanent database distinction and the ability to add, delete, or modify in either with the standard syntax.

	paul