Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!dfk From: dfk@NIC.EU.net (Daniel Karrenberg) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Subject: Re: problems with nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Message-ID: <2655@mcsun.eu.net> Date: 5 Mar 91 16:11:46 GMT References: <1991Feb22.181958.14608@ns.uoregon.edu> <1158@nikhefh.nikhef.nl> <1991Feb27.232354.25858@robobar.co.uk> Organization: EurOpen Lines: 25 >ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) writes: >>a20@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Marten Terpstra) writes: >> here is another way of getting mail to the UK, >> but that one is not advertised via the DNS. It can be delivered via EUnet. >> This goes via mcsun.eu.net and then to the UK EUnet backbone in Kent. This >> however does not help you with your queues. >And it does not help him at all if the destination site is not an EUNet >customer because the mail will be bounced (probably at Kent). This is -very fortunately- no longer true! So this route works. It is not indeicated by MX RRs in the DNS however. Even better: The EUnet backbone at Kent will be on the Internet soon. So the only thing that is missing is some agreement between the two UK nets to help each other out in case of outages. As far as I know this has been suggested and the mills are grinding..... Daniel -- Daniel Karrenberg Future Net: CWI, Amsterdam Oldie Net: mcsun!dfk The Netherlands Because It's There Net: DFK@MCVAX