Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Path: utzoo!telly!moore!sanwalk From: sanwalk@moore.com (Roy Sanwalka) Subject: Re: Finding an e-mail address (was: Maharishi Univ. e-mail address needed) Message-ID: <1990Nov22.055936.19730@moore.com> Summary: Don't assume UUCP Keywords: UUCP, Internet, host lookup Organization: University of Toronto, Computer Engineering 9T3 References: <43260@cci632.UUCP> <17041@netcom.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22 Nov 90 05:59:36 GMT I hate to be the one to bring this up, but it seems that some people here are assuming that we are all running UUCP on our local machines and keeping complete (and up to date) copies of the maps. THIS IS NOT ALWAYS TRUE! From experience, I can tell you that most large sites (eg. anywhere with more than a couple of machines on a net) usually has one host set aside as the mail server. This eliminated the need to keep the UUCP maps on all of the machines seperately, not to mention the Internet hosts table for Internet sites. Also, this approach allows you to use more efficient methods for mail transfer (SMTP over Ethernet) than UUCP. So, in order to locate a given place, this first thing to do is find out which machine at your sites is the mail server. Next, try using nslookup if you're looking for an Internet site, as it is faster and more reliable than the UUCP maps. And lastly, try the maps if all else fails. That's all for now, "sportsfans"... -- | A. Roy Sanwalka a.k.a. sanwalk@ecf.{toronto.edu|utoronto.ca} | | #include sanwalk@moore.com, sanwalk@robohack.uucp | | "Undergraduate Computer Engineer and Guru-in-training" | | "People who think they know it all really annoy those of us who do!" |