Xref: utzoo comp.mail.uucp:5722 comp.protocols.tcp-ip:14334 comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains:567 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!gatech!udel!haven!mimsy!nmrdc1!rdc30med From: rdc30med@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (LCDR Michael E. Dobson) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Subject: Re: More routing question information Message-ID: <1991Jan8.212308.22584@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> Date: 8 Jan 91 21:23:08 GMT References: <37629@cup.portal.com> <27887475.65E6@tct.uucp> Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command Lines: 24 In article <27887475.65E6@tct.uucp> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes: >According to thinman@cup.portal.com (Lance C Norskog): >>UUCP->Internet->UUCP is an abuse if it's not government-sponsored research, >>or you're not designing bombs :-) > >If so, then why is the DNS so happy to register UUCP-only sites? Not >that I'm complaining about the DNS, but it seems inconsistent. Perhaps to allow Internet sites to send mail to them by only having to specify user@site.dom.ain ? It sure makes life easier for me and my users. I can use the UUCP maps for one of my MUAs (ELM), but not the one used by the majority of my users, and not for the MTAs. So having MX records for UUCP sites served by an Internet site is A Good Thing(tm). I believe most dual sites (I am one) only advertise their UUCP links in the maps. I connect to some Internet sites via both SMTP and UUCP, but I only show the UUCP links. That way, the maps will only generate a UUCP path even though I could use the Internet for that hop (by could use I mean in the technology sense, not the legal sense). -- Mike Dobson, Sys Admin for | Internet: rdc30med@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil | UUCP: ...uunet!mimsy!nmrdc1!rdc30med AT&T 3B2/600G Sys V R 3.2.2 | BITNET: dobson@usuhsb or nrd0mxd@vmnmdsc WIN/TCP for 3B2 | MCI-Mail: 377-2719 or 0003772719@mcimail.com