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- From: djk@boombox.apana.org.au (David Keegel)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.misc
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Message-ID: <qpaRrAOABh107h@boombox.apana.org.au>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 93 09:44:58 +1100
- References: <F7skwB1w165w@willard.UUCP> <1hbmn9INNgrk@daisy.ee.und.ac.za> <1hsnfkINNdj@daisy.ee.und.ac.za>
- Reply-To: David.Keegel@apana.org.au
- Organization: Private site, Melbourne, Australia.
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- barrett@daisy.ee.und.ac.za (Alan P Barrett) writes:
-
- >.UUCP is not a valid top-level domain.
-
- ... as far as The Internet is concerned.
-
- >The DNS is the Internet's official name registry.
-
- which also has information about non-Internet mail addresses, where
- the owners of those addresses have wanted hosts on The Internet to be
- able to send mail to them. If I didn't know anything about it, I
- would assume that the "Internet's official name registry" is some
- thing which only contains information about Internet hosts.
-
- The Internet is a network which uses DNS to decide what mail is sent
- where. The UUCP network (whatever it's called) uses the UUCP maps.
- Within their networks, these are both valid.
-
- The reasons UUCP only sites should care what is in the DNS are:
- * The Internet is better inter-connected (more of a "backbone").
- * The DNS is designed to handle foreign networks/domains/hosts
- where the UUCP maps are not (they can be added, ad hoc, but
- they don't "fit" in a nice way).
-
- As a matter of interest, some Internet only sites do care what's
- in the UUCP maps. For instance, in Australia, due to the earlier
- success of ACSnet, the largest UUCP network in the country (as far
- as I can tell) is APANA with about 50 nodes. Yet the UUCP maps
- for Australia (which include about 20% of APANA) are about 60k.
- My guess is about 20% of those nodes would talk UUCP externally.
-
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- aka: djk@boombox.apana.org.au, djk@cs.mu.oz.au. Formerly: djk@bby.com.au.
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