On Tue, 13 Mar 2001 11:13:18 PST, Sean Donelan said:
Its not really the "will of the web page designers." If this becomes popular, I suspect most web page designers will start using dotted-quad addresses inside their HTML URLs on their web pages. So clicking on a
Except of course you can't bookmark the damned things, because the bookmark breaks if the website recables. One machine in my office has had the same hostname for 8 years now, but at least 3 MAC addresses due to upgrades and either 3 or 4 IP addresses. Hostnames exist for a reason. (For bonus points - how long after the first IMP install did a host change its NCP network address because of an IMP port change? ;) I have to ask if any of these people who advocate the new.net approach have been in the business long enough to have diagnosed problems caused by "I've got the Sep 1 hosts.txt, but you've go the July 15 and they've got the Sep 22" version. I *thought* we learned our lesson. Apparently not. -- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech