Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!crdgw1!crdgw1.ge.com!barnett From: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Re^4: Short-circuiting a route Keywords: .decnet, .dnet Message-ID: <1130@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 7 Jul 89 20:35:27 GMT References: <562@daitc.daitc.mil> <89Jun28.104844edt.10373@neat.ai.toronto.edu> <8452@rayssd.ray.com> <507@eda.com> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 45 In-reply-to: jim@eda.com (Jim Budler) In article <507@eda.com>, jim@eda (Jim Budler) writes: >gmp@rayssd.ray.com (Gregory M. Paris) writes: >>Since this is uucp we're talking about, I don't think you can say that >>node.decnet or node.dnet is illegal, though I'd agree heartily that it's >>ugly and disgusting. I don't much like it either, but when some companies have 20,000 machines on internal networks, it is not practicle to have a real domain name unless you do something equally disgusting like. machine.decnet.xyz.com > >I believe this statement is wrong. I also believe that any address of >the form node.transport-mechanism is wrong, including node.UUCP. >However, I don't do anything active about this belief, except my best >effort to insure that anything leaving my domain conforms to this >requirement. As long as there are specialized networks, you will have gateways and you will have addresses of the form xyz.com!machine.decnet!user or user%machine.decnet@xyz.com or <@xyz.com:user@machine.decnet> You will also find many systems that cannot handle 1, 2 or all three forms of the above address. p.s. We plan to use the "disgusting" form of user@machine.dnet.ge.com eventually, as soon as we get all of our gateways and name servers converted. sigh. p.p.s if you think xyz.com!machine.decnet!user is disgusting, try being postmaster of a machine with UUCP, internet, and decnet gateways and then watch people try to route mail from their VMS machine to a UUCP or BITNET site thru an internet site. And then watch people try to reply! You ain't seen nothing! :-) -- Bruce G. Barnett a.k.a. uunet!crdgw1.ge.com!barnett barnett@crdgw1.UUCP