Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!b-tech!zeeff From: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: local site in a domain Message-ID: Date: 25 Feb 91 21:20:45 GMT References: Organization: UMCC Lines: 50 >> 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? Try the uucp maps. #N apple #S DEC VAX-8650; 4.3 BSD UNIX #O Apple Computer, Inc. #C Erik E. Fair #E postmaster@apple.com #T +1 408 974 1779, +1 408 974 3525 #P 20525 Mariani Boulevard, M/S 32-E, Cupertino, CA 95014 #L 122 3 W / 37 22 N It's just an example, replace it with uunet if you prefer. >If you're planning on letting another site reroute for you, the least you >can do is give it an unambiguous address, and "apple" That's the problem. > or "apple.uucp" >isn't one. Wrong. >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. Why do you think that it is reasonable to take a well defined address and change it? >> 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. But you can use a path and still have some sites tack on a local domain (and then send it to the wrong place). -- Jon Zeeff (NIC handle JZ) zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us