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Comment by fshaun | Hacker News Reader

"hosted by" is a bit misleading. If things are as they were, it's easy for students to request foo.mit.edu. Looking at http://web.mit.edu/maps/networks/mit/mit-topology.pdf, 18.244 is E2 (Senior House).

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To clarify this, (and yes, it still works this way), any student can request foo.mit.edu for their personal box (and bar.mit.edu for their other personal box, and so on). It's an automated system and there is usually not any moderation of hostname requests unless they would conflict with an existing MIT department.

This is a very Senior House sort of thing to put up. :P

    traceroute fuck-the-skull-of-jesus.mit.edu
    ...
    11  nox1sumgw1-PEER--207-210-142-234.nox.org (207.210.142.234)  49.015 ms  52.072 ms  53.086 ms
    12  B24-RTR-3-BACKBONE-2.MIT.EDU (18.168.1.26)  49.024 ms  50.020 ms  53.364 ms
    13  FUCK-THE-SKULL-OF-JESUS.MIT.EDU (18.244.1.102)  54.338 ms  55.264 ms  55.258 ms

definitely "hosted by".

edit: oops, didn't notice you mention senior house. anyway, in my book, on your network = hosted by you.

"Hosted by" as in "lives on the 18...* network", sure.

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