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- From: vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul A Vixie)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
- Subject: Re: Why no MX records for .BITNET hosts?
- Date: 27 Dec 92 12:26:27
- Organization: DEC Network Software Lab
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- In-reply-to: dwells@fits.cv.nrao.edu's message of Sun, 27 Dec 1992 19:12:05 GMT
-
- that's a good idea but any such domain needs to be run by the same people
- who own the namespace. for example, we have an "enet.dec.com" domain that
- contains all the names of the "decnet phase iv" nodes on DEC's internal
- network. there is a single place to get the list of such nodes, and that
- place happens to be inside of DEC.COM, and those people call their network
- the "easynet", thus "node.ENET.DEC.COM".
-
- there's no domain under which we could put "uucp", other than perhaps
- "UU.NET" and i don't think rick wants to do that since noone is paying
- for it. i could create a "uucp.dec.com" domain and tie it to a bunch of
- MX RR's generated from the UUCP Map Database, but would i really want the
- rest of the universe gating $-!$+ to $2<@$1.uucp.dec.com> ? (NO!) names
- need to make sense in the context they appear in. "uucp.dec.com"'s
- innate meaning is "the uucp neighbors of dec.com".
-
- likewise bitnet. if the people who own the real bitnet name space are
- willing to create a subdomain full of MX RR's, then the various bitnet-to-
- internet gateways can rewrite into "user@node.BITNET.EDUCOM.EDU" rather
- than "user@node.BITNET" or "user%node.BITNET@gateway" as they do now --
- this would be absolutely ideal, since none of us outside of bitnet would
- have to change our mailer configurations at all.
-
- in the absense of that, the bitnet (or uucp) domains would have to be at
- the top level. i see no problem with this, but the people who own the
- top level _do_ seem to have big problems with this.
- --
- Paul Vixie, DEC Network Systems Lab
- Palo Alto, California, USA "Don't be a rebel, or a conformist;
- <vixie@pa.dec.com> decwrl!vixie they're the same thing, anyway. Find
- <paul@vix.com> vixie!paul your own path, and stay on it." -me
-