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From: guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Standardising the "postmaster" concept
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Date: Sun, 8-Sep-85 17:48:36 EDT
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> The big difference between DUAL and SUN is that DUAL had only 6
> machines on the internal ethernet, which made the administrative
> problem tractable by manual procedures. SUN has hundreds of machines on
> their multiple ethernets, and thus the mechanics of maintaining such a
> table of aliases becomes a lot messier. It is at that scale that some
> type of name service becomes important to implement.

Actually, the part I was referring to when I said "Yes, I know Sun doesn't
do that" is hiding the name of internal machines on outgoing mail.  We *do*
have a huge alias list that forwards all "user@sun" mail to the appropriate
machine.  That was done using the /usr/lib/aliases file, not with a name
server.

	Guy Harris