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Subject: Re: Path to magic.DEC.COM?
Message-ID: <5700003@svo.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 13-Jul-86 20:13:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 13 20:13:00 1986
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/* Written 0409 12 JUL 86 by cdrigney@uokvax.UUCP in svo.UUCP:net.net-people */
Our mailer doesn't understand domains properly, so is there
anyone out there who could instruct me on how to reach

	thain@magic.DEC.COM
[...]
/* End of text from svo.UUCP:net.net-people */

This, of course, being one of the problems with mapping the uucp system
converting to a non-flat domain space.  I think that many sites still
look at any domain name with non-'UUCP' first-level domains as an ARPAnet
address, so that things wouldn't break upon changeover to domain naming.
This problem will be more common soon.

Can anyone confirm that sites do/don't just blindly send '.COM,' '.MIL,'
'.ORG,' '.GOV,' and '.NET' sites to the ARPAnet, without seeing if they
are UUCP sites?  (Presumably because there is no UUCP nameserver.)

		Kurt F. Sauer
		Tulsa, Oklahoma
      Internet: ks@a.cs.okstate.edu
          UUCP: ks@svo.uucp