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From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: rerouting to an absolute address
Summary: harrumph!
Message-ID: <66745@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 13 Aug 90 21:20:07 GMT
References: <1990Aug6.230109.4220@ibmpa> <1808@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au>
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In article <1808@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au>, Christopher-Vance@adfa.oz.au writes:
>...
> IBM and SGI could do the same, if they wanted to, but since they don't,
> *they* are claiming that any subdomain not explicitly mentioned in the
> DNS *doesn't exist* (at least from the point of view of anybody using
> the Internet)....


This is the most recent of several postings that claim the sgi.com domain
does not have enough DNS records and/or map entries.  

Fooey!  We've got zillions of records.  There are thousands of records in
about 20 internal domains, but only about 50 records that we ask our DNS
secondaries to carry.  There are plenty of MX wild cards.  We have had
plenty of trouble with mail from remote places bouncing because those
remote places do not like our MX and A records, but I believe all of those
problems at the remote places.  Those problems are why all internally
generated Internet mail leaves *.sgi.com with return addresses using the %
hack.  Experience from the thousands of email messages gatewayed
each day by sgi.sgi.com has shown than more sites have trouble with MX
records than have trouble with %.

If you have concrete evidence of records that should be present but are
not, please post or email specifics.  You may send mail to postmaster@sgi.com
or to me at my address below.  (Note: the thousands of *.sgi.com hosts that
are not visible to you via ICMP ECHO through the gateway are represented
only by MX records.  Those who continue to ask for all of the thousands of
*.sgi.com A records will continue to be rebuffed.)


Why is that because I point out a bad effect of rabid rerouters on a
concrete example using hostnames and map entries with which I am familiar,
people presume that sgi.com is in a shambles?


grumpy,
Vernon Schryver
vjs@sgi.com