hostname and domain name server.

Russell J Fulton;ccc032u russell at ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz
Mon Dec 17 11:37:07 AEST 1990


A bit more research shows that uname (which elm uses) returns the first 8
chars of the hostname. In our case ccu1.auk. which is clearly wrong.

We are considering changing our hostname back to ccu1. 

Can anybody forsee problems with this??

Thanks, Russell.

-- 
Russell Fulton, Computer Center, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
<rj_fulton at aukuni.ac.nz>



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