Finally, for those savvy users who have given internal names to their computers and desire to preserve that use in the DNS, this memo applies peripherally to you. Because of an oversight, we at ESF, on network 149.119.0.0, have a negotiated two month reprieve which is expected to end on March 9, 1996. All fully qualified domain names at ESF are of the form name.esf.edu. The next two paragraphs discuss who picks a name and how to communicate that name to the ESFnet network manager. For administrative users, the director of Administrative Computing will pick a name for your computer.
Academic users are free to pick their own names for their computers.
For those requesting a new connection to ESFnet, space is provided on the ESFnet Connection Request form for you to specify three names in order of preference. If you do not know the computer's IP address, send e-mail to or call the network manager to request the address of the system to be registered. Because of duplication and other concerns, the name you choose must be negotiated with the network manager. The following summarizes RFC 1178. Do not use names that have semantic implications in the current context.