rja@edison.GE.COM (rja) (11/16/88)
In article <42300009@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu>, kai@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu writes: > > As I understand it, domains will only shorten, not eliminate the maps, since > you only have to know how to get to the gateway for each domain, instead of > each and every host. There are a very few top level domains: EDU, COM, MIL, GOV, ORG, US, & the overseas ones. As you yourself point out below, defining a smart-host is a good way to go. > Unfortunately, to maintain compatibility with sites who don't have registered > domains (yet), lots of people are registering all their hosts AND their > domain, so the maps are getting larger, not smaller. The above is unnecessary. If your REAL domain-name is registered and it is listed in the maps by its domain-name (in the d.* files), that should be sufficient for all UUCP sites. > Maybe if more sites used smart-hosts instead of trying to maintain the maps > themselves, it wouldn't be so difficult to keep the maps correct and in > sync. If we all would get domain-names, mapping would be much less the problem that it is today. Smart-hosts are a good idea.