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From: joe@cbnews.att.com (Joseph Judge)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Subdomains
Summary: pass the buck
Keywords: subdomains
Message-ID: <1990Aug27.022108.1879@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 27 Aug 90 02:21:08 GMT
References: <1990Aug26.203211.4863@mccc.uucp>
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	Pete, 

	( I am assuming that you meant that princeton.edu is your mail 
	forwarder and that you are listed with an MX record)

	As I understand it. You are "set". 
	
	Email to X.Y.MCC.EDU will be looked up, the MX record for MCC.EDU
	will be found and the email handed off to your mail forwarder,
	princeton.edu.

	Now, they will see the email for mcc.edu and hand it off to you,
	over the UUCP link.

	*You are responsible of "knowing" how to take care of the email.*
	(or princeton.edu will yell at you and call you names :)

	You will have to "know" how to handle any email going to the Y 
	subdomain of mcc.edu (for the above example).

	How you do this depends on what kind of mailer you are running.
	On mine, I just need to know that host Z, is the gateway machine
	for y.att.com. So, email to a.y.att.com will get passed off to Z.

	(and that gateway has to "know" how to handle that subdomain email,
	or I yell at them and call the administrator names :)


	Joseph Judge   postmaster@att.com


	
In article <1990Aug26.203211.4863@mccc.uucp> pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>Please forgive me if this is the wrong newsgroup, but this *is* a
>UUCP-related question.
>
>I have recently applied to NIC to obtain a domain name and have been
>granted the name "mccc.edu".  The machine 'princeton' (domain name
>"princeton.edu") is my primary server, and is connected to machine
>'mccc' via a dial-up telephone line.  'princeton' is on the Internet;
>'mccc' has only UUCP connections via dial-up to our neighbors.
>
>Some of these neighbors have asked if they can be listed as subdomains,
>e.g., 'pclabs.mccc.edu'.  "Can" is operational -- it's OK with me but I
>have no idea if it can be done and (if it can) how to do it.  Can anyone
>help me?
>