cfe+@andrew.cmu.edu (Craig F. Everhart) (11/16/89)
Maybe there is no top-level forwarder for all of *.ca, and maybe the reason is that whoever established the links didn't want you to think, even for a minute, that you could get mail to user@garbagename.ca . Craig Everhart
lamy@ai.utoronto.ca (Jean-Francois Lamy) (11/16/89)
cfe+@andrew.cmu.edu (Craig F. Everhart) writes: >Maybe there is no top-level forwarder for all of *.ca, and maybe the >reason is that whoever established the links didn't want you to think, >even for a minute, that you could get mail to user@garbagename.ca . Exactly. All .Ca sites get appropriate UUCP reachability data updated monthly in the maps. Having a central .Ca forwarder for UUCP would not be such a hot idea because a) there are parts of the country which are completely isolated from each other except for links through the US, and b) The .Ca forwarder would be using the exact same data that is currently available to all and often route back through the US, simply adding extra hops to the route. Just one more argument to keep you maps up-to-date (or to forward to a local UUCP site that does or a nearby Internet host). Jean-Francois Lamy lamy@ai.utoronto.ca, uunet!ai.utoronto.ca!lamy AI Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4