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From: pedz@bobkat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: unlisted domains
Message-ID: <625@bobkat.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Feb-87 13:11:36 EST
Article-I.D.: bobkat.625
Posted: Mon Feb 23 13:11:36 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 26-Feb-87 21:21:56 EST
References: <592@bobkat.UUCP> <8193@decwrl.DEC.COM>
Reply-To: pedz@bobkat.UUCP (Pedz Thing)
Organization: Digital Lynx, Inc; Dallas, TX
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Keywords: domains usemap usenet

In article <8193@decwrl.DEC.COM> reid@decwrl.UUCP (Brian Reid) writes:
>The deal is that ".stanford.edu" is a real live ARPAnet domain, accessed
>through ARPAnet domain name servers. The map files are not an official list
>of anything; they are for the convenience of people who do not have access to
>ARPAnet domain servers. Most ARPAnauts don't even know that uucp exists.
>Routing that mail to seismo (or any other ARPAnet site) should work.


Well, I was not simply trying to make things work, but trying to make
them work in the best way possible.  For example, I have since found
out that .ti.com is not listed in the maps either.  We happen to talk
to ti-csl which is in the .ti.com domain but uumail does not know this
since it is not in the map files.  Instead, user@host.ti.com gets
routed to seismo.  This is a general problem.  It is probably
something that the site administrators should add to their map entries
but until then, is there a way to get reasonably accurate information
about the domains.  A list of gateway machines to domains would be
nice even if the gateway is not on usenet.  In that case, the path
will go through the apprpriate place (like seismo).
-- 
Perry Smith
pedz@bobkat
{ti-csl,infotel}!pollux!bobkat!pedz