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From: Makey@Logicon.COM (Jeff Makey)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Re: Proposal for use of DNS to store RFC 987, etc mappings
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Date: 30 Jul 90 21:09:09 GMT
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In article <9007271704.AA19586@bel.isi.edu> postel@VENERA.ISI.EDU writes:
>Could some one tell me about
>these networks that use RFC-822 and are not part of the Internet, and don't
>have access to the DNS?

Just for example, there are hundreds -- if not thousands -- of LANs
with Sun workstations on them that are connected to the Internet only
via UUCP, or not at all.  These LANs all use RFC822/SMTP/TCP/IP for
exchanging mail among their hosts.  Most of these LANs have virtually
no support for the DNS, but instead use Sun's NIS (nee Yellow Pages)
to distribute host information.

                           :: Jeff Makey

Department of Tautological Pleonasms and Superfluous Redundancies Department
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