Note that addresses are allocated by local area network, not by department or organizational unit. The OAC has automated much of the Domain Name Service registration. LAN managers register hosts by maintaining a file with the necessary information about each host. This allows users within the uth.tmc.edu domain to connect to a host by entering just the first name. Additional aliases may be entered after this name or as required by arrangement with the UTH-HSC Office of Academic Computing.
Comment is, by convention, the model of the host, operating system, and primary user.
Currently, a warning is issued once a week if an invalid hostname is found in a DNS source file. At a future date, invalid hostnames will be excluded from the DNS updates. Please change any existing invalid hostnames before that time. The Domain Name Service is updated nightly, so that changes made to the files on oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu will not show up until the next day. In addition, if a network source file contains errors such as duplicate host names, the source file will be omitted from DNS registration.