Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!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: 21 Aug 90 17:21:16 GMT References: <5IA5TY9@ggpc2.ferranti.com> <3890@ralph.Lafayette.LA.US> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 29 In article <3890@ralph.Lafayette.LA.US> pja@ralph.Lafayette.LA.US (Pete Alleman) writes: > In article <5IA5TY9@ggpc2.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > >But the point in question is that having an FQDN doesn't mean you're on the > >internet. Simple point. Why do people keep forgetting it? > Maybe I missed something. Under what circumstances would a site with > a FQDN ending with an Internet Top Level Domain not be accessible from > the Internet? Excuse me. *ARGH* Sorry. I had to get that out. You misunderstand what I mean by "on the internet". I mean having a dedicated line, rather than dialing up a real internet site that's serving as an MX. It's not that a site isn't *accessible* from the internet, it's that the internet link might just be an expensive one for that site, and that an overall cheaper route might be available using pathalias. As, for example, from just about anywhere in Houston to any Houston site using UUNET or PSI as an MX, since Houston has the second largest local calling area in the U.S. (measured by number of customers), probably in the world. It's just about a requirement these days to have a domain. That doesn't mean that domain name system should be considered the best way to get mail to someone. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com