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From: blu@millipore.com (Brian Utterback)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: What do you do when one domain swallows another?
Message-ID: <1990Sep5.190959.4526@millipore.com>
Date: 5 Sep 90 19:09:59 GMT
Organization: Millipore Corporation
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A few months ago Millipore (registered domain millipore.com) acquired 
BioImage (registered domain bioimage.com).  Bioimage has now been connected
via leased line to Millipore's tcpip network.  Neither company directly 
connects to the Internet, Millipore's forwarder is UUNET and Bioimage's is
Sharkey at the University of Michigan.  The problem is now that Bioimage 
(the company) is a part of Millipore (the company) we need to merge the two 
domains.  

Luckily, there is no problem for most of the machines. The Bioimage domain was
never more than one machine, which is to say that user@bioimage.com was the 
outerworld address.  The rest of the machines are known as 
user@host.millipore.com.  So the problem is that we want the one machine 
(known as Maize) to be addressable as both maize.millipore.com and bioimage.com.
There is a large customer base that mails to bioimage.com so that must remain 
for the time being.

Further complicating the matter, we want to discontinue the connection with
sharkey, using UUNET exclusively.  

So, what do we do?


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