chris@vision.UUCP (Chris Davies) (07/11/90)
In article <n5-ge2.%c@smurf.sub.org> urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes: >< (and then there's what the British did to the DNS...) > >Well, if they _want_ the hassles they're presumably getting (I freely admit >almost-total ignorance here) with having to parse their domain names from both >directions, they're welcome to it. ;-) Yup. That's right. What's more, the NRS (Name Registration Scheme) in the UK decided that names need not be fully qualified, ie you can address email to any of (eg) site.CO.UK, site.CO, site (!!) and the local s/w is supposed to know what to append for you :-( Thus we would not be able to address email to a top-level domain .AC or .CO... Good isn't it! Chris -- VISIONWARE LTD | UK: chris@vision.uucp JANET: chris%vision.uucp@ukc 57 Cardigan Lane | US: chris@vware.mn.org OTHER: chris@vision.co.uk LEEDS LS4 2LE | BANGNET: ...{backbone}!ukc!vision!chris England | VOICE: +44 532 788858 FAX: +44 532 304676 -------------- "VisionWare: The home of DOS/UNIX/X integration" --------------
I.G.Batten@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten) (07/12/90)
chris@vision.UUCP (Chris Davies) writes: > ... the NRS (Name Registration Scheme) in the UK > decided that names need not be fully qualified, ie you can address email to > any of (eg) site.CO.UK, site.CO, site (!!) and the local s/w is supposed to > know what to append for you :-( Thus we would not be able to address email > to a top-level domain .AC or .CO... No, Grey Book says that the ``JNT Header'' --- the transport recipient that forms the first block of the Blue Book transfer --- is fully qualified. It'll normally work if it isn't, be if it doesn't there's little recourse. The wildcarding you suggest I always rationalised by the fact that you should add parts of your OWN address to the recipient. I should first try to add fulcrum.bt.co.uk (so I can mail user@balti, user@masalla), then bt.co.uk (so I can mail user@axion, user@planet). I don't try to add co.uk or uk, becaise I don't hold tables that complete. This strikes me as reasonable. Since the completion is only affixed if I have EVIDENCE that the resulting compound exists, if I typed ``user@foo.co'' it would be forwarded as is to my relay. I only do domain expansion if I know the compound is valid. ian