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From: schwartz@latour.colorado.edu (Mike Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: NetFind and its Internet load
Message-ID: <1991May12.165746.10528@colorado.edu>
Date: 12 May 91 16:57:46 GMT
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In article <9105112005.AA04828@uunet.uu.net> asp@UUNET.UU.NET (Andrew Partan) writes:

> I assume that you have thought about domains that are not on the
> Internet (...)  I don't want my mail servers hit with more load - at
> times every cycle counts.

NetFind does not probe servers that are in different domains than the
institutions being searched.  So, if a site has mail forwarding through
uunet (for example), NetFind will tell the user the site isn't on the
Internet, and not probe that domain further.
 - Mike