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From: michaelb@wshb.csms.com ( WSHB Operations Eng)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: rerouting to an absolute address
Summary: I don't understand
Message-ID: <796@wshb.csms.com>
Date: 7 Aug 90 19:11:53 GMT
References: <1990Aug6.230109.4220@ibmpa> <1990Aug7.081953.6108@terminator.cc.umich.edu>
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In article <1990Aug7.081953.6108@terminator.cc.umich.edu>, honey@doom.ifs.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman) writes:
> >	Of course, then we get to the following problem.  apple.sgi.com is a
> >FQDN.  Great.  Now the Rabid Rerouters pop up, and say "great, a FQDN very near
> >the end of the path (actually, at the end).  Let's short-circuit to that."
> >BOING!  If apple.sgi.com isn't Internet-connected, and doesn't have anyone

I don't get why sgi.com doesn't handle routing to apple.sgi.com.
I admit to being fairly new in this game. I have three machines
and none are internet connected. We have one MX record for the company.
I manage to sort out everything based on what prefixes the domain.

I can understand that the bang path will be absolutly worthless if someone
tries to reroute to the last host, in this case 'apple', but WHY doesn't
the domain handle getting it to the right place? I have spent a LOT of
my company's time and effort to get this domain stuff working. Am I still
missing something?

Michael
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