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From: wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Questions on UUCP Domains (specifically .US domain).
Keywords: .UUCP, .US, domain, E-mail
Message-ID: <323@psuhcx.psu.edu>
Date: 8 Aug 88 16:01:18 GMT
References: <461@icus.UUCP>
Reply-To: wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Organization: Penn State University
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In article <461@icus.UUCP> lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
|I have a few questions about this, since I am new to the "concept" of
|domains.  Firstly, does one have to have a net-neighbor who is an Internet
|site?   What is a NIC-handle?   Are domains case-sensitive, or is .Dallas.TX.US
|the same as .DALLAS.TX.US and .dallas.tx.us, etc... 
|
|For the .US domain is the accepted syntax:
|
|	.full-city-name.state.US	- or can one have other things like
|	.city-name-abbrev.state.US
|	.local-organization.state.US (like Chinet does).
Isn't .chi.il.us "Chicago"?

|
|I've seen all three already, is there a particular standard I should
|keep to.   I've been considering the name:
|
|	icus.Islip.NY.US -or- icus.islip.ny.us -or- icus.isl.ny.us -or- etc..
I *thought* is wwas supposed to only be .full-city-name.state.US ... am I
wrong??

Totally off the subject:  How does one register oneself as an MX host for
a site?  I would like to register psuhcx.psu.edu as the MX for 
hogbbs.fidonet.org.  Also, can you register a machine as the MX for a domain?
I.E. psuhcx should be the MX for .n263.z1.fidonet.org as well.  Replies to
me unless you think everyone else wants to know too.

Thanks
   Bill
(is the signature going to appear this time?)

P.S. I had to remove pubnet.sysops to be able to post this... you might want
to add it back if you are following up.