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From: k2@charly.bl.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Klaus Steinberger)
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Subject: Re: Clarification Re: .de (was: Domains created in June 1990)
Keywords: topleveldomain .de EUnet unido
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Date: 20 Aug 90 10:37:24 GMT
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henkp@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl (Henk P. Penning) writes:

>In article <2152@unido.UUCP> ap@unido.UUCP (Axel Pawlik) writes:

>> 4 Due to the involvements of more than one networking organisation
>>   and the associated administrative overhead initially some problems
>>   had to be cleared up. This has been done now.

>  Great. Could somebody explain why mail to (fi) uni-mainz.de
>  gets MX'ed to cunyvm.cuny.edu (that's in New York I think).

Yes, that's the standard MX for all site's inside de (wildcard MX), which have
no Internet connection. I think there is also an MX to mcsun.eu.net,
and unido.informatik.uni-dortmund.de, but cunyvm.cuny.edu has the highest
preference as I know. cunyvm.cuny.edu knows how to deliver (it knows, that *.de
has to be delivered to DEARN.BITNET).

That's not the best solution for european sites, I think it should be 
possible to add a MX for *.de to unido with higher preference.
That will allow an delivery more closer to the destination, and will
fallback to cunyvm, if the transatlantic link to unido will fail.

Sincerely,
Klaus Steinberger


Klaus Steinberger               Beschleunigerlabor der TU und LMU Muenchen
Phone: (+49 89)3209 4287        Hochschulgelaende, D-8046 Garching, West Germany
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