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From: wcwells%ucbopal.cc.ucb-vax.arpa@BRL.ARPA (William C. Wells)
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Subject: nameservers do not know about domains
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Date: Fri, 11-Oct-85 01:44:21 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 11 01:44:21 1985
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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 85 17:58:50 pdt
From: wcwells@ucbopal (William C. Wells)
Message-Id: <8510110058.AA07761@ucbopal.Berkeley.Edu>
To: ZELLICH@SRI-NIC.ARPA
Subject: nameservers do not know about domains

In reply to:

	From ZELLICH@SRI-NIC.ARPA Sat Oct  5 01:12:40 1985
	Date: Sat 5 Oct 85 00:13:07-PDT
	From: Rich Zellich <ZELLICH@SRI-NIC.ARPA>
	Subject: Re: List-of-lists distribution
	To: wcwells@BERKELEY
	Message-Id: <12148618239.12.ZELLICH@SRI-NIC.ARPA>
	Status: O

	Looks like I can't; SRI-NIC's mailer doesn't like most of your
	domain-style addresses, including ucbjade.Berkeley.EDU.  Do you
	have a non-domain-style address for netinfo@...?
	-Rich
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For Header-People:

Ha.  So much for a domain mailing system.  What happen to the idea
that the nameserver was suppose to check the next level up in
the domain address "Berkeley.EDU" to find a nameserver for unknown
lower domain levels, eg.  if "local-address@unknown.BERKELEY.EDU"
is not known, look for "BERKELEY.EDU" which should point to a nameserver
on UCBVAX or UCBARPA. Do we have a software problem here?

I also heard rumors that SRI was not allowing both a third level
and second level domain name to be registered for a host.  This
would policy if true, distroys the concept of having distributed
domain nameservers, since there is no pointer to a remote nameserver.
Comments?

For Rich:

Try the old gateway format:
	netinfo%ucbjade@Berkeley.EDU
for the List of Lists distribution.

Bill Wells