Sridhar Ayengar wrote: Johnny Billquist wrote: Node list don't even get transmitted within the same area. Node names are local to each machine, and it is perfectly valid to have different names for the same node number on different machines (although perhaps confusing). How hard would it be to write software as equivalent to DNS? Not necessarily for general-purpose use, but just for HECnet? Peace... Sridhar . There is already DECdns in DECnet Phase V aka DECnet-Plus. If you want to use it, you can just create the database and then populate it e.g. from the MIM's nodelist.