Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!karl_kleinpaste From: karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Another Novice Needs sendmail Help Message-ID: Date: 14 Dec 90 19:58:43 GMT References: <1990Dec13.203054.17265@chinet.chi.il.us> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: Ohio State Computer Science Lines: 22 les@chinet.chi.il.us writes: It makes sense to me to make most uucp sites subdomains of their internet forwarder so that wild-card MX's can allow them to come and go without bothering anyone but the forwarder. I think you misunderstand the administrative intent of MX RRs. By providing service to something.org, I am explicitly stating that I provide a service to someone other than my own organization. MorningStar.COM is not part of Ohio State, but I MX for them. There is no reason why Morning Star Technologies should be considered to be affiliated with OSU. Hence, a separate domain. Even more so, for private, single machines, I really don't want them to be considered part of my organization. I do MX service for galaxia.newport.ri.us and a few related systems; they are by no means part of OSU and I don't intend to have them identified as such. Just for grins, imagine one of the sites that have seriously embarrassed themselves on the networks having been identified as a subdomain of the Internet entity which feeds them. I rather suspect that the feed site would not take too kindly to such a suggestion.