[8996] in SIPB bug reports
Re: various rolodex database nitpicking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Mon Oct 6 17:02:01 2003
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 16:56:25 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
To: "Joel N. Weber II" <nemo@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU, yonah@MIT.EDU, kenta@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <E1A6cI7-0004Lu-00@xanthine.gratuitous.org>
Joel N. Weber II <nemo@MIT.EDU> wrote on Mon, 6 Oct 2003
at 16:49:15 -0400 in <E1A6cI7-0004Lu-00@xanthine.gratuitous.org>:
> Several minor issues I noticed looking through the rolodex database:
>
> ``rolodex mycroft'' gets you the gnu office. that stopped being The
> Right Thing in about the fall of 1997.
I don't think it's implicitly wrong.
> There are various BBN/gtei/genuity numbers; one wonders if they have
> ceased to be useful.
If you find a number that is wrong, please let us know.
> The whoami number listed (200-222-1234) gets me a busy signal
> (probably a fast busy) when I dial it from my landline in Somerville.
> I don't know of any number that does work for that function, and would
> be interested in learning what it is if there is one.
It was added by kenta with this log entry:
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revision 1.263
date: 2003/05/16 16:13:49; author: kenta; state: Exp; lines: +5 -2
Added two numbers related to debugging telephones.
The anic number tells you what number you are dialing
from, it works in East Cambridge; other places may
have different numbers.
The residential repair number needs to be prefixed
with whatever area code you are dialing from; the
call goes to the right repair center depending on
the area code.
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Personally, I don't think it belongs in there. And it's wrong
for it to be labelled "ANI" unless it really is...
> It seems odd that this lists somerville twice, but shrug:
>
> dodecahedron:~$ rolodex 617-776-2460
> 617-776-2460 Somerville
> 617-776-2460 SOMERVILLE, MA (SOVLMACEDS0) BELL ATLANTIC NE
> dodecahedron:~$
This is normal when the entry is listed in both the rolodex library
file and the NANPA database.
> (One also wonders if tying that into google might be clever, or
> something. Or searching the athena finger info.)
No. Rolodex should stay local, without external network dependencies.
--jhawk
