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From: kurt@hi.unm.edu (Kurt Zeilenga)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Setting up Internet domains and UUCP maps
Message-ID: <23627@hi.unm.edu>
Date: 24 Aug 88 20:29:19 GMT
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Reply-To: kurt@hi.unm.edu (Kurt Zeilenga)
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Paul Vixie states:
>Either way, you need three things done:
>(1)	you need an NS record in the core servers
>(2)	you need an MX record in the server where your NS points to
>(3)	you need the machine named as your MX to be able to reach you on UUCP

I would just like to point out that the name servers and mail exchangers
need to be setup before authority is delegated from the root servers.
I believe that the NIC actually requires that the name servers be
operational before they will process your registration form.  This being
true (please correct me if I am wrong) implies that it is possible for
you to setup a domain and when you go to register it someone has beaten
you to it.  However, I've never heard of this happening with Internet
domains.

What I have done in that past (I've setup up a few secondary domains) is
to:
	1) obtain primary and secondary servers
	2) obtain MX'er if not directly attached to the Internet
	3) pick appropriate domain name
	4) setup and test name servers and MX'ing.
	5) send registration form to NIC

Note I did not suggest registering the domain in the UUCP maps.  The
maps already provide adequate mechanism for forwarding registered Internet
domains (directly attached or not) and appearance in maps will only
cause mail to be routed completely though UUCP instead of taking a
"short-cut" across the Internet. 

For example, GURU.COM does NOT appear in the maps and UUCP sites deliver
mail thru a UUCP-INTERNET gateway.  .UNM.EDU, which does appear in the
maps, gets its mail routed in via SLOW UUCP connections even though we
are directly on Internet.  I am attempting to get UNM to delete all
meantion of UNM.EDU from the maps.  Maybe there is a better way?

Comments on this subject would be appreciated.