Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!dell!mikeh From: mikeh@dell.dell.com (Mike Hammel) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: How do I find the domain of a friend? Message-ID: <2891@dell.dell.com> Date: 21 Aug 89 17:58:54 GMT References: <5446@inco.UUCP> <5455@inco.UUCP> <446@wet.UUCP> Reply-To: mikeh@dell.UUCP (Mike Hammel, ) Distribution: news Organization: Dell Computer Corp., Austin, Tx. Lines: 21 In article <446@wet.UUCP> epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) writes: >I don't think most readers understand what this means; while the >Domain Name Service has the capability to provide information >about individual user mailboxes, most sites use alternative >facilities (which predate DNS, "ain't broke and don't need >fixing") for the per-user stuff. > >"Routing" as uucpers understand it (i.e. per-host) is most >definitely done within domains, and name servers are very much >responsible for making this work right. > I'm sort of new to this too. I take it what you mean here is that the name server functionality (providing centralized routing information for a domain) is not the dominant structure in use. For the most part individual hosts maintain the domain routing information locally. Is this right? Michael J. Hammel | UUCP(preferred): ...!cs.utexas.edu!dell!Kepler!mjhammel Dell Computer Corp. | Also: ...!dell!mikeh or 73377.3467@compuserve.com Austin, TX | Phone: 512-338-4400 ext 7169 "I know engineers, they looooove to change things" L. McCoy Disclaimer: These are my views, not those of my employers. So there.