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From: cmf@obie.cis.pitt.edu (Carl M. Fongheiser)
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Subject: Re: BITNET hosts also internet?
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Date: 16 Jul 90 15:03:07 GMT
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In article <KARL.90Jul11094604@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu> karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu writes:
>; etc...Where DO you get a list of DNS equivalents for BITNET hosts?

Simple; you fetch a copy of BITEARN NODES, and grab the :internet tag for
each node.

>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...you also take on a non-trivial task of
>maintaining a reasonable list of CNAMEs...I don't recommend this, but
>it oughta work...

Assuming you can get the information at all (more like know *how* to get
the information), it's easy to generate the list.

NOTE: You will make some system maintainers *very* unhappy by doing this.
      I know of certain EARN administrators, in particular, who would
      *much* rather receive their mail from the US via BITNET/EARN.

This was all hashed out on the NODMGT-L list a couple months ago.  Be
careful!

				Carl Fongheiser
				cmf@unix.cis.pitt.edu