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From: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Re^2: Short-circuiting a route
Message-ID: <3689@ncar.ucar.edu>
Date: 12 Jul 89 21:10:12 GMT
References: <3569@ncar.ucar.edu> <4147@tank.uchicago.edu> <3572@ncar.ucar.edu> <4238@tank.uchicago.edu> <3650@ncar.ucar.edu> <Jul.7.21.34.59.1989.1538@NET.BIO.NET>
Reply-To: woods@handies.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods)
Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR, Boulder CO
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In article <Jul.7.21.34.59.1989.1538@NET.BIO.NET> lear@NET.BIO.NET (Eliot Lear) writes:
>vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
>asuvax = asuvax.eas.asu.edu, enuxva.eas.asu.edu <*<*<*<*<*<*<*<*<
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>Of course, one must now make a check to see if an A record exists.

   And how, pray tell, does one do this if one does not have an Internet
connection? That is what the Fido folks are faced with. This discussion was
in response to a statement that the Fido folks could just as easily maintain
an MX database as a UUCP paths database. Without an Internet connection,
that just ain't so.

--Greg