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- From: mnystrom@athena.mit.edu (Mika Nystroem)
- Subject: Re: patriot.mit.edu (vanity server alert)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.205357.27392@athena.mit.edu>
- Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: m11-116-13.mit.edu
- Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- References: <1992Dec11.144428.13598@news.ysu.edu> <1992Dec11.155558.2035@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Dec11.194808.26570@njitgw.njit.edu> <1992Dec14.103032.563@rat.csc.calpoly.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 20:53:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec14.103032.563@rat.csc.calpoly.edu>, asamonte@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Just some loser...) writes:
- |> How about a server that fakes host names for people? Do you know of
- |> many other servers that do that? Gee mnystrom@patriot what the hell
- |> kind of address is that?
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- Well, it certainly isn't *fake*, although it may be a little incomplete. :)
- You can get almost any server to do something similar to a hostname almost
- as simply as patriot. Try /server localhost sometime while you're running
- a client on your favorite server computer. Most servers I have seen do not
- have K-lines for "* localhost".
-
-
- Regards,
- Mika Nystroem
- mnystrom@athena.mit.edu
-