Re: Locking and concurrency -- system considerations

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Dom Mitchell
CC: Nigel Metheringham, exim-users
Subject: Re: Locking and concurrency -- system considerations
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Dom Mitchell wrote:

> >From bitter experience, this is because people hard code the names
> of machines in places you wouldn't like to know about.


Not only that, but we have found that they often hard code IP addresses
likewise.

> Ideally, one would choose a correct naming scheme


No help in the case of hard coded addresses!

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Philip Hazel                   University Computing Service,
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