Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!nosc!logicon.com!Makey From: Makey@Logicon.COM (Jeff Makey) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: BITNET hosts also internet? Message-ID: <706@logicon.com> Date: 12 Jul 90 18:01:48 GMT References: <1990Jul10.212525.21017@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> Distribution: na Organization: Logicon, Inc., San Diego, California Lines: 55 In article karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu writes: >Now, of course, if anything outside your own nameserver ever discovers >that something claims to know about a ".bitnet" top-level domain, >well, there'll be hell to pay... It's not that bad, really. Here's the complete, unedited zone file I use: ----------------------------------------------------------------- ; ; @(#)bitnet.zone 1.1 (Logicon) 02/23/90 ; @ IN SOA Snoopy.Logicon.COM. Postmaster@Logicon.COM. ( 1 ; Serial Number 7200 ; Refresh Interval (2 hours) 1800 ; Retry Interval (30 minutes) 1209600 ; Secondary Expiration (14 days) 86400 ) ; Minimum Expiration (24 hours) IN NS localhost. ; ; advertised Internet<->BITNET mail bridges ; * IN MX 100 CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU. IN MX 100 MITVMA.MIT.EDU. ; ; Some BITNET hosts that are also known by real domain names, ; and their respective canonical names. ; BROWNVM IN CNAME BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU. CUNYVM IN CNAME CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Note the use of "localhost" as the nameserver to make it inconvenient for other sites to depend on me. The CNAME list is short because I handle very little BITNET traffic, and the wildcard MX entries take care of all of the other hosts. If the official Internet<->BITNET gateway sites would get together and register an honest BIT.NET zone then all of us Internet-only sites could put R$*<@$+.BITNET>$* $:$1<@$2.BIT.NET>$3 into our .cf files and we'd never have to worry about it again. :: Jeff Makey Department of Tautological Pleonasms and Superfluous Redundancies Department Disclaimer: All opinions are strictly those of the author. Internet: Makey@Logicon.COM UUCP: {nosc,ucsd}!logicon.com!Makey