On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 10:21:09 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >I hesitate a little to possibly just add to the noise because I don't really >know the answer; I'm just hypothecating. > (hypotheticating? Not that either. hypothesizing? Aren't spellcheckers fun?)
>Does a workstation necessarily have a name? In the protocol, I mean. A dumb >terminal with no name can do telnet. Is there anything to the connection >request other than "Hi, I'm 192.168.1.1, let's connect"? There's no query >where the mainframe says "tell me about yourself," right? > And that IP address may have been assigned by DHCP. DHCP may retain the association and disclose it on request. But DHCP might generate a surrogate host name, a transformation of the IP address it assigned. Some might consider making such information generally available a security risk. There's a (weak) argument there for choosing opaque hostnames. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
