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From: jbs@mit-eddie.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Database of all net sites
Message-ID: <4800@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 9-Feb-87 15:56:58 EST
Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.4800
Posted: Mon Feb  9 15:56:58 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 10-Feb-87 05:35:14 EST
References: <110@catsim.catsim.UUCP> <7960@decwrl.DEC.COM> <170@quacky.mips.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbs@eddie.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal)
Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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Keywords: netsites, Database
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In article <170@quacky.mips.UUCP> dce@quacky.UUCP (David Elliott) writes:
>In article <7960@decwrl.DEC.COM> reid@decwrl.UUCP (Brian Reid) writes:
>>[...]
>>Save this database--it will gradually become obsolete but it's the best you
>>are going to get.
>Could you give us a time frame on this "phasing out"? I had planned to
>include the pathalias stuff, an automated database extractor, and
>some mailer support in our next release. [...]

For the purposes of mail routing, the database will continue to be
maintained.  The difference is that all the sites on the net will not
be included.  The d.* maps, which will replace the u.* maps, will
include only enough data to get the mail to the gateway system for the
destination domain, which would then route it further (i.e. within
that domain)

Jeff Siegal