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by wolfgang42 2289 days ago
Not sure about UUCP specifically, but a persistent problem until the introduction of DNS seems to have been that various places in the network sometimes had different names for a single host. Check out the discussion referenced from RFC 298, “What we hope is an official list of host names”: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc289.html