Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!usc!ucsd!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!logicon.com!Makey From: Makey@Logicon.COM (Jeff Makey) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: BITNET hosts also internet? Message-ID: <711@logicon.com> Date: 17 Jul 90 02:28:34 GMT References: <1990Jul10.212525.21017@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> <25918@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Distribution: na Organization: Logicon, Inc., San Diego, California Lines: 30 X-Local-Date: 16 Jul 90 19:28:34 PDT In article <25918@unix.cis.pitt.edu> cmf@obie.cis.pitt.edu (Carl M. Fongheiser) writes: >In article 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. [...] >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! This is exactly why I think BITNET should administrate an official Internet domain for themselves. Any site that prefers their BITNET interface to their Internet interface simply doesn't have to have a CNAME record, or else has their MX record point to their nearest INTERBIT site. Either way, thousands of Internet-only sites simply let the Domain Name System do the job it is designed to do. No muss, no fuss, and the mail gets through. :: 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