Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!vixie From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: What does "on the internet" mean -- to YOU? Message-ID: <56@gnome6.pa.dec.com> Date: 18 Nov 88 06:41:19 GMT References: <151@logicon.arpa> <53@gnome6.pa.dec.com> <23667@pprg.unm.edu> Organization: DEC Western Research Lab Lines: 23 # To me, on the Internet (note the capital 'I') implies you can hold some # form of IP conversation with SRI-NIC.ARPA (or some other major # ARPAnet/MILnet/NSFnet host). Being on an internet implies you talk IP (even # if just to yourself :-). Well, my Symmetric 375 can carry on an IP connection with itself on lo0. I don't see this as a useful definition. I see the :-), but remember that I said "in the context of mail", and in that context, according to my usage of "on the internet", having an MX gets you on the internet. In fact, _in a mail context_, the ability to do IP with SRI-NIC.ARPA is not meaningful: you have to have an SMTP server running, which is not contained in that def'n. # What we really need to do is get MX records for those hosts/sites not # directly attached and blow off the UUCP maps all together.... That won't work. Every UUCP-connected site can have an MX in the DNS, and those sites will _still_ want UUCP maps to talk to _eachother_. Also, not all MX->client connections are direct. We don't want all traffic to have to have at least one IP hop in it, do we? -- 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