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Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!micor!latour!mcr
From: mcr@Latour.Sandelman.OCUnix.On.Ca (Michael Richardson)
Subject: Re: Another Novice Needs sendmail Help
Message-ID: <1990Dec15.235725.19155@Latour.Sandelman.OCUnix.On.Ca>
Organization: Sandelman Software Works, Debugging Department, Ottawa, ON
References: <1990Dec8.234514.11668@vmp.com> <1990Dec12.021841.4983@Latour.Sandelman.OCUnix.On.Ca> <1990Dec13.203054.17265@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 90 23:57:25 GMT

In article <1990Dec13.203054.17265@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>>the reasons for this kind of thing. It just seems silly to me. So
>>does .com -- what is wrong with .com.us? (Other than its length)

>What is a municipal domain and why should they exist apart from
>the forwarders?  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.  If all the uucp sites register, the size of the
>map dbm files will have to double to accomodate both the uucp
>name and the domain-style name.  Why is that a good thing?
  
  I couldn't agree with you more --- having everyong register
a municipal domain IN THE UUCP MAPS in not a good thing. Although
one might argue that the MX databases could handle it (being
already distributed) I don't think that is good either.


>Les Mikesell
>  les@chinet.chi.il.us

  I'm not sure what you had to go through to register chinet.chi.il.us:
(I'm sure glad they didn't mandate chinet.chicago.il.us!) --- but
wouldn't it be easier if there was the one MX record pointing 
*.chi.il.us to some friendly local site? (It need not be the actual
machine with the MX record)
  [I'm assuming that chinet's link to the rest of the world is some
sort of dialup link, e.g. UUCP -- you aren't actually on the Internet]
  If authority was given to the chi.il.us forwarder to create 
sub-domains and they made it as easy to register site.chi.il.us as
it is to register a UUCP Zone site, the UUCP maps would go away. 

  I'm beginning to find that with the Internet two telebit hops
away that there is very little point in keeping extensive maps. Unless
I can hack pathalias to favour the UUCP name when producing routes
(e.g. I have ljk = ljk.ocunix.on.ca,
sandelman.ocunix.on.ca ljk.ocunix.on.ca(DEMAND). But I want 
pathalias to produce 'ljk!%s' since I'm the only one that knows that
ljk = ljk.ocunix.on.ca, but uux needs uucp names), I may just go
the route of hand building my paths file. 
  

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