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Subject: Re: Domain names in the NIC table
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Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 03:09:19 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 17 03:09:19 1985
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	Date:           Mon, 14 Oct 85 17:54:21 PDT
	From: Rich Wales <wales@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU>
	To: Header-People@MIT-MC.ARPA
	Subject:        Re: Domain names in the NIC table

	...

	(1) I believe that EVERY host name which is used in a mailing address
	    should appear in BOTH the domain data base AND the NIC host name
	    table.  Any host which doesn't have its name in both places is inev-
	    itably going to encounter problems getting mail from some portion of
	    the net.
	...

At Berkeley we have run into the problem of not all hosts being on a
packet (eg. TCP/IP) net. In addition to hosts on our local ethernets,
we support mail service to hosts that are only on our BERKNET, BITNET,
or linked by dialup UUCP connections. These hosts are in the Berkeley.EDU
mail domain, but we cannot register them in the NIC host table because
they do not have Internet network addresses, nor can they support SMTP.
However, they can be supported by a mail domain nameserver.

Prehaps we need a separate nameserver for mail domains, or away of indicating
a domain name is not on the physical internet?

Bill Wells