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From: andy@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Andy S Poling)
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Subject: Re: Domains for UUCP Sites, was: Bogus .UUCP addresses
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Date: 28 Jun 91 17:08:46 GMT
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In article <9106270056.AA09258@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> nauen@WRAIR-EMH1.ARMY.MIL ("1159-DIRECTOR/OVERSEAS OPS") writes:
[...]
>As of last night, 1,864 .COM subdomains were registered with nic.ddn.mil. 
>I suspect that many of these subdomains have been created because of the
>increasing interest in having a domain name and that quite a few may consist 
>of only one machine.  Nothing wrong with that, I suppose, but I'm curious as
>to why more emphasis hasn't been placed on the .US domain option.

We feed a number of small sites (read one machine) mail via UUCP.  Rather
than having each of them register a domain name for their machine, I have put
them in the uucp.jhu.edu subdomain.  Of course, if they have a domain name
of their own that's fine too.

This way, all of their outgoing mail contains FQDNs in the return-addresses
(our mailer takes care of that).  Incoming mail (to those sites) gets the
uucp.jhu.edu stripped from addresses - that way they can still run stupid
mail software and remain oblivious of domain names without everybody else
suffering.

Only one entry is required in the maps: jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu is the gateway
for the uucp.jhu.edu domain.  There is a wildcard MX in place as well so
that *.uucp.jhu.edu goes to jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu.

I like to think I've done my little part in simplifying matters...  

-Andy

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