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In article <9207522.19808@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>, djk@cs.mu.OZ.AU (David Keegel) writes:
> 
> peter@cujo.curtin.edu.au (Peter N Lewis) writes:
> 
> ] to set up similar aliases for other Australian resources.  For example
> ] I'd like to see info-mac.au be an alias for shark.mel.dit.csiro.au (the
> ] Australian shadow of the info-mac archives at sumex-aim.stanford.edu).
> ] Similarly, for shadows of wuarchive, umich, rascal, etc (if any of these
> ] are indeed shadowed in australia).
> 
> Are any of these *not* available on plaza.aarnet.edu.au, the new AARNet
> Archive Server, which also happens to be called archie.au?  Having all
> these kinds of things shadowed by one, dedicated machine was exactly the
> reason for plaza's purchase, as I understand.

The point remains, however, that it would be a good idea to logically decouple
the machine that runs archie from the machine that is the archive server.

Picture this scenario...  archie.au gets too slow (or too full) for current
needs so it is decided to split it up.  The plan is to separate the FTP from
the archie.  But all those people who use archie.au to get to their FTP sites
suddenly need to use a new name.  Very sad.

So why not...
  o ftp.au (for ftp services)
  o archie.au (for archie services)
or even better
  o ftp.aarnet.au (for aarnet sponsored ftp services)
  o archie.aarnet.au (for aarent sponsored archie services)
or better still
  o xxx.aarnet.au (for aarnet's xxx (where xxx = info-mac/umich/rascal etc)
    archive)
  o archie.aarnet.au (for aarnet sponsored archie services)

Being only a Mac person (-; I'm not sure whether the DNS is capable of providing
this level of abstraction, however it seems like a good idea to me.

Sounds like Poor Man's Yellow Pages (PMYP) to me.  I wonder whether British
Telecom have that one trademarked also. (-:

Quinn "The Eskimo!"   <quinn@cs.uwa.edu.au>  "Real Coke, Diet .sig"
Department of Computer Science, The University of Western Australia