Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!ogicse!unmvax!bbx!mimas!mcn From: mcn@mimas.UUCP (Michael C. Neuman) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: local site in a domain Message-ID: Date: 16 Feb 91 18:12:08 GMT References: <1991Feb16.035314.2904@jpradley.jpr.com> Organization: Albuquerque Academy, Albuquerque NM Lines: 33 jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley) writes: > I have a domain. > > A site in my domain wants to call itself "apple". > > This is of course a name which already is in the published maps. > > How do I disambiguate mail destined for apple.jpr.com as opposed to that for > apple.com? > I don't think you should have a problem. Since mail destined for apple.com is being sent to a specific domain. Your domain is jpr.com. The only problem would be if you have a link to apple, and it's uucp site name was also apple. THEN you'd have a problem. Mail routing is pretty well based upon domains. For example, my mail feed is bbx.basis.com... My systems address is mimas!xxx@bbx.basis.com... If my feeder were so inclined, I could join his domain and become mimas.basis.com... Or apple.basis.com... Since you have a registered domain, mail sent to jpr.com will go to the system you registered under via the path you registered under. Your system will have to handle the apple.jpr.com conversian to ...!apple. <<<===========================--------==============================>>> <<< Mike Neuman || Senior Systems Programmer >>> <<< mimas!mcn@bbx.basis.com || Albuquerque Academy >>> <<< mcn@beta.lanl.gov || Computer Science Division >>> <<<===========================--------==============================>>> "It's hard to work in a group when you're omnipotent" - Q ST:TNG "Counsel will refrain from making opposing advocate disappear" - Data