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- Subject: Non-Internet hostname aliasing
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.103843.46@dymaxion.ns.ca>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 14:38:42 GMT
- Organization: Dymaxion Research Limited, NS, Canada
- Lines: 27
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- How do I define mail/telnet/ftp aliases for Internet and non-Internet host
- names? I have tried UCX SET HOST, which works fine for Internet addresses,
- but what about non-Internet addresses, like user%foo@foobar.bar or
- user@foo.BITNET? I can't do:
-
- UCX SET HOST "%foo@foobar.bar"/address=?.?.?.?/alias="foo"
- or
- UCX SET HOST "foo.BITNET"/address=?.?.?.?/alias="foobar"
-
- because neither of these hostnames map to actual Internet addresses.
- I tried omitting "/address" but it didn't work. Do I fake the Internet
- address by just making it the address of the router node (e.g. the
- address of foobar.bar in the first case and the BITNET gateway address
- in the second case)? Will UCX SET HOST even accept my first example,
- or does it choke on the percent-hack?
-
- I realize that for non-Internet nodes I'm not going to be able to do
- an ftp or telnet anyway, but I want a single approach to hostname aliasing
- which I can use for mail, ftp, and telnet for all addresses. I could always
- fall back to using MX to do the aliasing, but my first choice would be to have
- UCX handle everything so I only have to change things in one place.
-
- Ben.
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- Ben Armstrong, Software Development bus: (902)422-1973
- Dymaxion Research Ltd., fax: (902)421-1267
- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3J 1R2 Internet: bg@dymaxion.ns.ca
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