[6622] in SIPB bug reports
default news hostname no longer athena.mit.edu
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mhpower@MIT.EDU)
Fri Dec 26 00:26:00 1997
From: mhpower@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 1997 00:24:01 -0500
To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU, usenet@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[0015] in SIPB new bug reports"
> ... problems for users because any article they posted with the old
>version can't be cancelled in the standard way using the new version.
>I'd prefer that the default hostname stay as "athena.mit.edu" for now.
>If there happens to be lots of support for changing it, it should be
>done at a very low-activity time of the year. The last time that the
>default hostname was changed (this happened to be due to an
>inconsistency among platforms) was December 25, 1995.
On December 25 this year, I changed /mit/sipb/src/inews-1.5.11/conf.h
to set the domain to mit.edu rather than athena.mit.edu, patched the
inews binary on the platforms where it existed (decmips, inbsd, linux,
rsaix, sgi, and sun4) to have the corresponding 14-byte change, and
released the corresponding sipb.* afs volumes. Also, I changed
/news/lib/inn.conf to have "fromhost: mit.edu" and restarted innd.
Matt
