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From: WANCHO@SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL ("Frank J. Wancho")
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: host-down redirects?
Message-ID: <WANCHO.12427223341.BABYL@SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL>
Date: 2 Sep 88 02:16:00 GMT
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Bob,

Most of our users exchange mail with other MILNET hosts.  I suspect
about 95-99% of those hosts still run off of the NIC hosts table, as
we currently do.  When we are all forced to use domain resolvers, then
your suggested solution would appear the way to go.

--Frank