jordan@ucb-arpa.ARPA (Jordan Hayes) (11/25/85)
Hmmm... I still don't understand why a host like buffalo.cs.net
couldn't be something like buffalo.suny.edu and why someone like
stony-brook couldn't provide name-service for a suny domain and include
an MF for buffalo pointing to the csnet-relay and an MF for, oh, say,
binghampton pointing to the bitnet relay, etc... am I missing
something, or shouldn't the hosts with the network connections provide
this service for those less fortunate? Things would look helluvbetter.
Are you listening stony-brook?
/jordan
ps: sorry to rag about a personal beef ... I have an account on
buffalo.csnet ... my home town, doncha know ...dennis@CSNET-SH.ARPA (Dennis Rockwell) (11/26/85)
From: Jordan Hayes <jordan@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu> Date: Sun, 24 Nov 85 13:04:20 PST Subject: Re: CSNET ... Hmmm... I still don't understand why a host like buffalo.cs.net couldn't be something like buffalo.suny.edu and why someone like stony-brook couldn't provide name-service for a suny domain and include an MF for buffalo pointing to the csnet-relay and an MF [ ... ] The CS.NET domain will never (and does not now) contain any hosts other than those here at the CSNET CIC; we decided awhile ago not to try to perpetuate the .CSNET hack (which is really what all these .UUCP and .BITNET et.al. "domains" are) and instead offer to advertise our members with MF records as suggested above. We are using CS.NET now only because RELAY.CSNET.BBN.COM lacked that instant recognizability that we now have (RELAY.CS.NET is at least close to, and intuitively associated with, CSNET-RELAY.ARPA). Whether buffalo.csnet becomes buffalo.suny.edu or something else similar is pretty much up to them; however, the NIC has yet to answer our query about whether they could accept requests for something like 100 second-level .EDU domains. We're even ready, in principle, to be the primary or secondary domain server for most of our members (SUNY Stony Brook and SH.CS.NET backing each other up is the right approach, by the way). We're ready to do it, for the most part. If only BIND didn't occasionally decide that the rest of the world had gone away.... Dennis Rockwell CSNET Technical Staff