Path: utzoo!censor!geac!yunexus!ists!eric
From: eric@ists.ists.ca (Eric M. Carroll)
Newsgroups: can.usrgroup
Subject: Re:  Domain names and other mystical incantations (with a proposal)
Message-ID: <1137@ists.ists.ca>
Date: 11 Sep 89 00:24:29 GMT
References: <89Sep7.214410edt.28732@nexus.yorku.ca> <1989Sep8.175105.29431@tmsoft.uucp>
Reply-To: eric@network.admin.ists.ca (Eric M. Carroll)
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Organization: Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science
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>>| Having devoured the document, I am still unclear on one thing:
>>| How do I figure out someone that is an Internet site?  It seems
>>| I need someone that is willing to be a forwarder for my domain.
>>| - Who is acting as forwarder for other local domains?
>>	Unet, mostly.  UofT forwards UofT, not unexpectedly,
>>but few sites forward "nearby" domains.  YorkU.ca forwards
>>ists, but ists is closely related to york: its one of our
>>comercial partners...

Just for the record: ISTS does its own forwarding, and has since around Feb.
As a voting member of Onet, ISTS is an Internet site, and does not depend
on York for any Email or Domain Name Service facilities, although we do enjoy
a very close relationship with them and share a fiber optic ethernet 
connection. We also act as secondary nameservers for each other. For inbound 
Internet Email we were MX served by ai.utoronto.ca (many thanks, Rayan) until I 
activated our name server. This was complete around the beginning of Aug.

ISTS provides EMail registration services and forwarding for all industrial
members of ISTS.