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From: morris@harvard.ARPA (Robert Morris)
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Subject: Domains.
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Date: Mon, 7-May-84 20:55:02 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  7 20:55:02 1984
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Thank you, Jon, for your letter and information. I read rfc883 and
admit to being confused. How much of 883 deals with looking up host
numbers (possibly to send mail), and how much deals strictly with
mail? For instance, does one really need a name server for a domain
which is not on the internet, and thus only accessible through a
mail (only) gateway.

In particular, I would like to register a top level domain with a
couple of hundred hosts. There are a few people here who
already have big databases describing it, and are trying to keep
them up to date. We can control the format and so forth of messages
going onto the arpanet.
What I need is clarification of what the name servers are for; I'm
not sure what in rfc883 applies to domains with a single gateway
and no internet host tables.

				Thank you,
					Robert Morris (morris@harv-10)