Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!oli-stl!asylum!romkey From: romkey@asylum.sf.ca.us (John Romkey) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Pathalias and routing of mail Message-ID: <1034@asylum.sf.ca.us> Date: 13 Dec 88 14:57:00 GMT References: <2189@unmvax.unm.edu> <1665@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu> <4199@mailgw.cc.umich.edu> <2194@unmvax.unm.edu> <1144@tank.uchicago.edu> Reply-To: romkey@asylum.UUCP (John Romkey) Organization: The Asylum; Belmont, CA Lines: 24 In article <1144@tank.uchicago.edu> matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford) writes: >Paul A Vixie sez: >) Canonically, this is usually put: "given a!b!c!user, go ahead and get to 'a' >) by any means available, but don't assume that your 'c' is the same as the 'c' >) known to 'b'". >I stand by my practice of jumping ahead when 'c' is fully qualified. >Since I am at an internet site, my route to 'c' ought to be almost as >up-to-date as humanly possible, unless the authority for c's domain >Just Doesn't Care. Internet-centrism. (Take that from an Internet-hacker). It may not be an Internet route, and you won't be able to tell. If 'b' is a mail gateway and 'c' is a name in another namespace hidden on the other side of the mail gateway, jumping ahead to resolve 'c' and ignore 'b' will lose. 'c' can look like anything it wants, it might resemble a fully qualified domain name or be a real domain from Andromeda. -- - john romkey romkey@asylum.uucp romkey@xx.lcs.mit.edu romkey@asylum.sf.ca.us Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground Mother Earth will swallow you, lay your body down.