Re: unique IDs (Re: TS (Re: RFC: OP cheating))

[Chris Behrens <cbehrens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Christophe Kalt wrote:

> On Mar 17, Chris Behrens wrote:
> | Better solution: unique IDs per client...no one will ever get a message
> | bound for anyone else, ever, whether it be a /mode, /msg, etc..
> 
> it's not only better, it's _the_ solution, which I expected
> to be mentionned earlier.
> 
> | Undernet already does this...EFnet will at some point...
> 
> Undernet did it the easy way by assigning an ID to each
> server.  It looks nice for routing (even tho I doubt there's
> that much to win), but makes it annoying to link a new
> server as you need a unique ID assigned.

Yep...having a unique ID assigned manually could be a pain, but, at
the same time, it forces a network to have some sort of organization.
Instead of everyone and their mother adding servers here and there.

IMHO, Undernet messed up by limiting server ids to max of 64.

> 
> How's EFnet going to do it? TS4?

I'm not sure...i can't remember the emails very well...but Roger
is the one who brought it up, I think...

> I'd like to see the proof, or something more than just the
> claim that statistically ID collisions will be very rare.

nod...

- Chris

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Chris Behrens
Software Engineer
Concentric Network Corporation