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- From: rick@ricksys.lonestar.org (Richard McCombs KB5SNF)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.misc
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Message-ID: <930101.012708.3E2.rusnews.w165w@ricksys.lonestar.org>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 01:27:08 CST
- References: <1992Dec24.185932.29142@sol.UVic.CA> <H9TkwB1w165w@willard.UUCP> <2fg1Hb16rb@atlantis.psu.edu> <C03B0z.C6p@wimsey.bc.ca>
- Organization: The Red Headed League; Lawton, Ok
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- [notice followup]
- sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne) writes:
-
- > In article <2fg1Hb16rb@atlantis.psu.edu> barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) writes
- > :
- >>In article <H9TkwB1w165w@willard.UUCP> dawson@willard.UUCP (Willard Dawson)
- > writes:
- >
- >>inherently a multi-platform, multi-transport task, providing a common
- >>routing mechanism for everyone is quite difficult.
- >
- >> Assume for a second that every UUCP-only site out there had a
- >>registered MX. What sort of other routing concerns are there?
- >
- > Not too many. And you don't need MX records for all uucp sites. For example
- > van-bc, aka wimsey.com forwards mail to about 80 UUCP sites. About a dozen
- > of those have their own FQDN's with an MX record pointing to wimsey.com. But
- > the rest just use XXXX.wimsey.com where XXXX is their uucp node name. There
- > is one MX record for wimsey.com which catches all of these.
-
- One problem though if a uucp node is going to be know at all by a short
- node name then they need to register in the maps even if they are a
- leaf, if you are going to list them in your map entry, because it screws
- up the maps. Notice the bang path listed in my signature, but the system
- I connect to is in Fort Worth, Texas not Vancover, British Columbia.
-
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