Xref: utzoo news.newsites:623 comp.mail.misc:1023 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!umd5!uflorida!bud.cis.ufl.edu!esj From: esj@bud.cis.ufl.edu (Eric S. Johnson) Newsgroups: news.newsites,comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: new site aleytys.UU.NET Message-ID: <15864@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Date: 2 Jun 88 16:01:05 GMT References: <159@aleytys.UU.NET> <130@skep2.ATT.COM> Sender: news@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU Reply-To: esj@bud.cis.ufl.edu (Eric S. Johnson) Followup-To: comp.mail.misc Organization: UF CIS Department Lines: 29 In article <130@skep2.ATT.COM> wcs@skep2.UUCP (46323-Bill.Stewart.,2G218,x0705,) writes: >In article <159@aleytys.UU.NET> mike@aleytys.UU.NET (Michael Kent) writes: >> #N aleytys >> #W mike@aleytys.UU.NET (Michael Kent); Sun May 22 09:24:25 EDT 1988 > >I've never seen the "domain" .UU.NET - is it real, or did >you make it up? If it's not real, then you'll really have trouble >getting mail from people with domain-based mailers, which is to say >"most of the world". > UUNET seems to have a MX record in their nameserver which probably looks something like this: *.uu.net in mx 10 uunet.uu.net If you run decent mailer software, this means that mail to xxxx.uu.net will get delivered to uunet.uu.net. Matched with a pretty smart sendmail.cf at uunet.uu.net, this allows the the address aleytys.uu.net to work just fine. A very nice (and maybe undocumented) feature that a uunet connection provides for UUCP only sites. -- In Real Life: Internet: esj@beach.cis.ufl.edu Eric S. Johnson II UUCP: ...{codas|gatech}!uflorida!beach.cis.ufl.edu!esj University of Florida Think of it as entropy in action :-)