Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!enea!ttds!rajaei
From: rajaei@ttds.UUCP (Hassan Rajaei)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: determining domain type
Message-ID: <1134@ttds.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 11:56:06 EST
Article-I.D.: ttds.1134
Posted: Mon Oct 26 11:56:06 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 29-Oct-87 05:48:09 EST
References: <5533@sgistl.SGI.COM> <1885@killer.UUCP>
Reply-To: rajaei@ttds.UUCP (Hassan Rajaei)
Organization: The Royal Inst. of Techn., Stockholm
Lines: 13
Keywords: uucp mail sendmail
Xref: mnetor comp.mail.misc:644 comp.mail.uucp:912

>the top-level domain, i.e. .UK for the United Kingdom. The big advantage
>with this type of site domain name is that it is the same regardless of how
>many networks a machine is on; a message sent to aramis.rutgers.edu is likely
>to arrive whether send from a UUCP-only site with smail or an Internet-only
>site with sendmail.

I like to believe that. It is really nice to see it actually works on all
nets interconnected to each other. But the big problem is that many gateways,
network routing tables/databases still do not recognize this kind of address-
ing. That means you have to route explicitly through some gateway.

Hassan Rajaei
rajaei@ttds.tds.kth.se