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: <9OR9I_A@xds13.ferranti.com> Date: 27 Feb 91 16:42:22 GMT References: <87512@sgi.sgi.com> <8YF-!-?@b-tech.uucp> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 48 In article <8YF-!-?@b-tech.uucp> zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes: > Let's take a case where mysite advertises (via the uucp maps) a uucp > connection to apple.uucp. Let's not. Seriously, if they've got a direct external link through UUCP to apple they should not have an internal site with the same name. If someone does that, then got on their case. > mysite!apple!user is then quite well defined > and yet some mailers will still send it to apple.mysite.com!user. Mailers where? At mysite? If mysite has a local system named "apple" that is the system they *should* send it to. If you're outside mysite and you expect it to route properly to apple!user, when they haven't advertised such a link, then you deserve to lose. > >If you are at mysite.com, and for sufficient reasons "apple.mysite.com" > >exists, and the link from "mysite" to "apple.mysite" is via UUCP, and you > >receive something for "mysite!apple!user", what should you do? > Does mysite show a link to apple.uucp in the uucp maps? No. And if it's an internal site it doesn't need to. > Do you want > users to be able to rely on pathalias routing to reach apple.uucp? No, I want them to be able to rely on pathalias routing to reach apple.com. > If mysite has a uucp link to apple.uucp, then I disagree. If not, then it's > a local decision. I don't find it unreasonable to make users use > apple.mysite.com when that is what they mean. No, local users should be able to assume that ambiguities will be resolved in favor of the local machine. That's the common case. > But what about local users - do you want your users to somehow know > that apple is a special case? Or should users always use ".uucp" when > they mean a site in the uucp maps? No, I don't tell my users about the UUCP maps. I tell them to use fully domainised names for sites outside Ferranti. Then if it breaks I fix it. If they want to bang-route stuff themselves that's their responsibility. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"