Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Convincing Smail to use FQDNs Message-ID: Date: 17 Aug 90 14:24:34 GMT References: <3827@ralph.Lafayette.LA.US> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 16 In article <3827@ralph.Lafayette.LA.US> pja@ralph.Lafayette.LA.US (Pete Alleman) writes: > I would think that any uucp site closely connected to the Internet > would want to route mail destined for an Internet site to the > nearest gateway. Well, that seems reasonable. However, a FQDN does not imply that a site is an internet site. For example, consider: uhnix1.uh.edu---Internet | <-- local call sugar.hackercorp.com | <-- long distance call uunet.uu.net---Internet, and MX for .hackercorp.com Suppose someone at uhnix1.uh.edu wanted to send mail to someone at sugar.hackercorp.com. What do you think their mail router should do? -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com (currently not working) peter@hackercorp.com