Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!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: 4 Mar 91 18:44:03 GMT References: Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 29 In article zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes: > Try the uucp maps. I'm going to have to replace my supply of smileys. Yes, I know "apple" is in the uucp maps. But the site name is "apple.com", and depending on "apple" or any other name in the maps to be unique... except among other systems in the uucp maps... is just asking for trouble. Yes, using "something.uucp" to refer to the maps is common, but is it actually officially supported? Who is the contact for the ".uucp" domain? > >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? But "apple!something" is not a well-defined address. If I'm at foo.bar.com and I have a uucp link to the sales office in Apple City, and their uucp name is "apple", then what should I do with "apple!something"? > But you can use a path and still have some sites tack on a local > domain (and then send it to the wrong place). Could you give an example of this behaviour? -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"