[H-GEN] aliases

[A Bruce in the Land of the Bruces]

On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Rob Kearey wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Nov 1997 13:57:37 GMT, Craig Eldershaw wrote:
> >So for dingo to understand "dragon.dialin...", you need the DNS to give the
> >answer "dragon is 203.101.236.75".  To do that, you need to convince 
> someone
> >in Prentice with authority to add a line in a table stored on the DNS
> >machine.  The adding of the line is easy, the convincing isn't.  In fact it 
> >probably won't happen without a lot of money or blackmail, or both.
> 
> I dunno - money talks at Prentice these days. Arrangements could possibly be 
> made for Paying Punters. Free accounts (staff, student or postgrad) are 
> another issue entirely.

>From talking with Julianne, if you want your own name, you will be charged
for DNS services.  Which is a little bit. 

However, there is nothing stopping you from getting your own name in
another domain, its just that Prentice won't change the reverse lookup for
that name.

--==--
Bruce.


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