Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!dcl-cs!aber-cs!athene!pcg From: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Subject: Re: Proposal for use of DNS to store RFC 987, etc mappings Message-ID: Date: 5 Aug 90 15:35:19 GMT References: <9007271704.AA19586@bel.isi.edu> Sender: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP Organization: Coleg Prifysgol Cymru Lines: 32 In-reply-to: postel@VENERA.ISI.EDU's message of 27 Jul 90 17:04:18 GMT "postel" == postel writes: postel> I am sorry, but i really don't get it yet. Could some one tell me about postel> these networks that use RFC-822 and are not part of the Internet, and don't postel> have access to the DNS? I could imagine such a situation, but i don't postel> know of any actually existing. Essentially any site running any version of BSD Unix or other academic Unix version has a local RFC-822 compliant network. They can well be isolated from the Internet. Essentially all the academic CS networks in the United Kingdom are in this position; they run locally DARPA/NSF Internet style (usually multiple) networks, but they are connected by an OSI/ISO/X.25 WAN (Janet). This is also true for many sites outside the USA; most software delivered with Unix machines is by default RFC-compliant, but getting a connection to the Internet, or even just get pointed to by the DNS may be not easy. I understand that there are some company networks in the USA that are RFC compliant but are not connected or visible to the DARPA/NSF Internet, either because they do not care, or for obsessive security reasons. There will be many funny happenings in Europe and the United Kingdom in particular as more and more sites get connected to the DARPA/NSF Internet... -- Piercarlo "Peter" Grandi | ARPA: pcg%cs.aber.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth | UUCP: ...!mcsun!ukc!aber-cs!pcg Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk