4 Mar
2020
4 Mar
'20
10:06 a.m.
Bob,
Actually, HECnet does have a node 63.1023 in my lab. It is a hidden area node for testing
purposes. :-)
-Steve Davidson
SF:iP1
On Mar 3, 2020, at 22:38, Robert Armstrong <bob at
jfcl.com> wrote:
?
The area.node notation, and the Phase 3 numeric address notation, were
intended to be standard, not just limited to NCP. And indeed DECnet/E
(in RSTS) does both:
FWIW, VMS accepts all three notations too - e.g. ZITI::, 2.16:: and
2064::. It also accepts the node"name password":: notation as well.
Actually I thought this was a standard thing in all "modern" (i.e. Phase IV)
implementations. Are there systems that don't?
And the VMS parser doesn't limit the node name to 6 characters, so you can
say "63.1023::" (although HECnet has no such node).
Bob