Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!decwrl!vixie From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: the crucial distinction Message-ID: <9@jove.dec.com> Date: 7 Oct 88 00:49:29 GMT References: <8809212215.AA21035@naggum.se> <2540@sultra.UUCP> <804@bacchus.dec.com> <23130@amdcad.AMD.COM> Organization: DEC Western Research Lab Lines: 24 In article <23130@amdcad.AMD.COM> rpw3@amdcad.UUCP (Rob Warnock) writes: # [...] the "next host" in the path is a plain UUCP name, e.g. "a!b!c", and # you don't talk to "a". These should be returned with error, so the sender # can fix his/her routing table. [...] If I thought I could get to appear on the neighbor as instead of the truncated then I might agree with you. It would be great to have a signal of some kind to tell a passive rerouter to do its stuff, and at first glance, a domainized name looks like a good way to get that to happen. But there are many sites worth sending mail to that do not have and will never have a domain name; they are reachable by a dotless UUCP name, and I need to be able to tell a passive rerouter to find a route to it, and I can't use .UUCP reliably because so many MTA's strip it out (including my own). Therefore: bouncing because "a" is not a neighbor is probably the wrong thing to do, since if "a" is reachable via a pathalias-located route, you are probably asking the passive rerouter to find the route for you. -- Paul Vixie Work: vixie@decwrl.dec.com decwrl!vixie +1 415 853 6600 Play: paul@vixie.sf.ca.us vixie!paul +1 415 864 7013