Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wotan!moxie!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: local site in a domain Message-ID: Date: 23 Feb 91 14:23:00 GMT References: <_L=-F2#@b-tech.uucp> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 32 > >> Some mailers subscribe to the not very well though out convention of > >> attempting to tack on the local domain (ie, apple!user becomes > >> apple.jpr.com!user). > >OK, what's wrong with this convention? > When somebody sends mail to mysite!apple!user (intending this mail to > be delivered to apple.uucp) it ends up going to user@apple.mysite.com > (where it usually bounces). Apple.uucp? Apple.uucp? Where is apple.uucp? I know of an apple.com... is that what you're talking about? If you're planning on letting another site reroute for you, the least you can do is give it an unambiguous address, and "apple" or "apple.uucp" isn't one. Either "apple.com" or "neighbor.dom.ain!apple" where you know that neighbor.dom.ain is adjacent to apple. How do you know that "apple.mysite.com" isn't actually connected to "mysite.com" via a uucp link? In that case the only reasonable interpretation of "apple!anything" is apple.mysite.com. > The "let's just hope that a name in the > default domain doesn't match a uucp name" thing is not the way to do it. I agree. I'd put it differently... the "let's assume that an unqualified ambiguous name is going to be routed correctly" thing is just asking for trouble. If you want to get to a site in the UUCP zone, you have to use a path. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"