🚀 go-pugleaf

Robert Weinberg <robertw@informix.com> writes:
:
|   Here are some recent listings I pulled from an Archie site. ...
:
|   Host slembe.ifi.uio.no   (129.240.88.1)
|   Last updated 03:59 11 Dec 1992

Aha!  So that's why lots of people pound on poor old slembe!

slembe.ifi.uio.no is an aging Sun 3/280, and used to off-load ifi.uio.no
when that machine was also a poor old Sun 3/280.  ftp.ifi.uio.no pointed
to slembe at this time.  I don't remember how long ago ftp.ifi.uio.no
started pointing to ifi.uio.no, but it's more than six months ago, soon
after we upgraded it to a Sun 4/75.

_Please_ use FTP.IFI.UIO.NO, and please help stamp out this old record.
slembe is likely to expire in the near future, but ftp.ifi.uio.no has
always worked and will always work.

I find it very sad that Archie counter-acts the use of aliases to move
services around on machines as they are upgraded.  And don't use IP
addresses for reference purposes.  One significant effect of domain
names is to be able to keep the name while changing the number.

The morale of the story is to use FTP.IFI.UIO.NO, and let the domain
name system (DNS) figure out which machine this is, and where it is.
(Software that doesn't use the DNS for name lookups have no business on
the Internet, anyway, and should be fought with all means available.)

If anybody knows how to tell Archie, I'd be delighted to learn about it.

Best regards,
</Erik>
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