Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!karl_kleinpaste From: karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Imminent death of UUCP Zone predicted Message-ID: Date: 28 Jun 90 19:46:51 GMT References: <1990Jun28.164938.23367@DSI.COM> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: Ohio State Computer Science Lines: 63 syd@DSI.COM writes: However, domain name registration requires more than just running smail and filing an ap, it requires a forwarder (MX style) that is on the ``Internet''. Otherwise, how will all the internet people send mail to them. And thats the rub, finding an MX server. ... As as often been discussed and will never be settled, who will be the MX forwarder (forwarders) of last resort. I have made this offer in the past, and I make it again now: +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | I, personifying the nameservers and mailers of Ohio State Computer | | Science, am willing to be nameserver and MX for ___ANYBODY___ who is | | willing to make the UUCP calls to osu-cis to pick up his/her own mail. | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ My only restriction is that I am severely limited in the amount of long distance calling I can do, and so we support it only to our vendors. Hence, you have to be willing & able to make the calls yourself. But then, in keeping with my other philosophical viewpoints about "them that wants the data pays the phone bill," this is Right. It is in my interest to get sites DNS-registered. That's why I'm willing to make this kind of offer/effort. Getting sites registered reduces the likelihood that I will be hassled about how to reach obscure places. In the long run (admittedly, the run can seem mighty long), it saves me time to do this. I am NS and MX for 3 domains in West Germany, ferpetesake; they make TB calls to osu-cis to get/send their mail. I am nameserver secondary for organizations in Australia. There are 60 lines of my named.boot describing things which have nothing to do with OSU. The nameserver running on tut.cis.ohio-state.edu has used almost 96 CPU minutes since being booted only 9 hours ago -- and Tut is a Pyr 98x, no slouch of a machine. I first made this offer a long time ago when an argument was going down about the silly political battles that raged around Europe and the difficulty of getting into the European UUCP maps. That's where the 3 West German domains came from. I also routinely help people get domain registrations accomplished without being either NS or MX for them. I send them the canned form from the NIC, with a little commnentary on how to fill it out, they send it back, I add a bit of text about who the nameservers are, contact a friend or two to set up a nameserver and/or secondary, and away they go. IT'S NOT THAT TOUGH AND I AM TIRED OF PEOPLE BITCHING ABOUT IT BEING TOUGH. THERE ARE THOSE OF US OUT HERE WHO WILL HELP. *ASK*! I would appreciate it if others who are willing to assist in these matters would stand up and be counted. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem. (In a perverse way, I feel I'm going to regret this posting.) --karl -- Depression \di-'presh-un\ n. A condition observed on return from 3 weeks' vacation to find ~2000 mail messages waiting for oneself. (And people marvel that I employ GNUS as a mail-reading interface.)