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- From: dawson@willard.UUCP (Willard Dawson)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.misc
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Message-ID: <e539VB6w165w@willard.UUCP>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 14:39:25 EST
- References: <b8jMrA7ABh107h@boombox.apana.org.au>
- Organization: Willard's House BBS, Atlanta, GA -- +1 (404) 664 8814
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- djk@boombox.apana.org.au (David Keegel) writes:
-
- > Hey, I never said you'd want to -- the question was, "can you do it?"
- >
- > If we assume that there are n (0<n<10) sites that are prepared to accept
- > all mail from Internet to .UUCP which is not otherwise handled (a BIG
- > assumption, I know) this could, technically, be done. Can we agree
- > that it is theoretically possible to advertise inet->.uucp in the DNS?
-
- I think so.
-
- > I guess a technical reason why it would be a bad idea is that there are
- > probably some Internet sites out there whose mailers are misconfigured
- > enough to check MXes before handling local uucp traffic (not that they
- > should be asking the DNS to resolve a *.UUCP name in the first place!).
-
- There are indeed some Internet sites configured in just such a manner,
- or, rather, there were just a few days ago. Perhaps they've all been
- paying attention and have fixed their mis-configurations? One in
- particular, at pa.dec.com. I've been corresponding with a DEC person,
- who was supposedly pursuing the problem, but I've not been watching to
- see whether they've made any recent changes, so I don't know how they
- stand.
-
- For what it's worth, I've come across the same problem, mailer software
- querying DNS on host.UUCP, on several "Internet" hosts. If we accept
- the statement (from more than one participant on these newsgroups) that
- .UUCP is INVALID (typically shouted, as if that would make it somehow
- more logical), the Internet hosts surely have no business in querying
- DNS for that domain, yes?
-
- We likely all agree on that one. But, how do we make that information
- common knowledge?
-
- >
- > --
- > David Keegel Home: <djk@boombox.apana.org.au> Tel: +61 3 593-1460
-
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