Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!epiwrl!epimass!jbuck
From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can someone explain the relationship between domains and uucp?
Message-ID: <2254@epimass.EPI.COM>
Date: 30 Jun 88 16:41:44 GMT
References: <1830@stpstn.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <1830@stpstn.UUCP> aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) writes:
>
>I have a general understanding of domains in the internet world, but can
>someone explain them in the uucp world, both "real" ones like (say) .stpstn,
>and the "fake" one .UUCP?

Neither .stpstn nor .UUCP is a "real" domain.  Neither is ".ARPA".  

Thanks to the efforts of the UUCP Project and NIC, UUCP-only sites
can obtain a registered domain, as can BITNET and CSNET sites.
Our domain, .EPI.COM, is one such.  To have a registered domain you
must have an Internet forwarder, a site on the Internet that knows
how to mail at least to your gateway machine and has agreed to
handling the traffic.  Domain mailers, when given an address, first
try to locate the host.  If they don't know how to get the mail
there, they attempt to locate the domain.  Domain servers have
"MX records" to tell how to reach a given domain.

Provided that the host is on the UUCP map, Internet folks can mail
to site.UUCP by mailing to site.UUCP%uunet.uu.net .  This will fail
if the site is not on the map.
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