[20] in resnet
Name service
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dthumim@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Wed May 19 01:48:43 1993
From: dthumim@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: resnet@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 19 May 93 01:45:49 EDT
Has any thought been given to providing name service (other than the
stock W61-G417 or whatever) to computers in the dorms and ILGs?
Machines in the ILGs to date do have names.
For most people this will probably not be a concern. But what about
for people who want to run network services (servers of some kind)?
In order to be able to run such a service, it is important that a
system have a name that does not change every time the computer's
owner moves across the hall. Also, if a service is moved to another
computer, the name would need to be moved too, so there might be
unusual cases where a computer needs more than one name.
If there is a cost involved in entering the names in the host tables,
then perhaps a nominal charge of a dollar or so could be associated
with getting, changing, or moving names, just to cover that cost.
-- |)an
