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From: rayan@ai.toronto.edu (Rayan Zachariassen)
Subject: Re: why both d.can.? and d.can.??.?
Message-ID: <88Aug27.131201edt.438@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
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Date: Sat, 27 Aug 88 14:31:54 EDT

In article <316@telly.UUCP> evan@telly.UUCP (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
# Why does there exist a separate d.can.1 map file, even though there are
# d.can.??.1 files for each province (which has subdomains)?

Because there had to be a place to keep global routing information and keeping
this data in the file associated with a specific province would not be
appropriate.  Since a d.can.1 then exists, it was natural to put the foo.Ca
domain info there, and the foo.Province.Ca (and below) info in a file associated
with the province.  

# Is there a special reason to keep the members of the .CA domain separate
# from the files listing Canadian members of .EDU, .COM, .ORG, etc.? Certainly
# one wants to keep a distinction between the d.* and u.* files, but what
# logical reason is there to keep .CA in a different file?

I didn't think they were... look at sq.com, unicus.com and uofo.edu for
their location in the d.* files.  If they appear to be in a separate file,
its because there aren't any subdomains under .On.Ca yet...

# I understand that .CA is maintained in the Great White North (utai, to be
# precise), while the others are registered thorugh stargate (I think). Still,
# Canadians can send UUCP map entries to rutgers OR utai and both make it into
# the u.can.??.? map files. Is this political? :-)

Its them yanks.  rutgers!uucpmap just forwards (by manual intervention)
to utai!path.  Don't send to both, or I'll get 2 copies!

In fact, rutgers has been quite erratic lately in terms of being reachable
for map updates and processing them (as in, it seems to drop updates).  I
think I'll start posting from here again.  The disadvantage to this is that
you'll see 2 copies in comp.mail.maps, the one from here not having gone
through the sanity filters at rutgers.  2 months without maps is reason enough
I think.

rayan