(Non)-Uniqueness of Net Names

>   > The most useful reason for their being there IMHO is to be able to build
>   > an /etc/networks file from them.  This means, of course, they need to
>   > be unique.
> 
> I thought we were beyond flat file directories *on a global scale*.

Not really, we use the /etc/networks file for our IP-accounting
as a last resort if part of the DNS system is out of order.

Martijn.