esj@bud.cis.ufl.edu (Eric S. Johnson) (06/02/88)
In article <130@skep2.ATT.COM> wcs@skep2.UUCP (46323-Bill.Stewart.<ho95c>,2G218,x0705,) writes: >In article <159@aleytys.UU.NET> mike@aleytys.UU.NET (Michael Kent) writes: >> #N aleytys >> #W mike@aleytys.UU.NET (Michael Kent); Sun May 22 09:24:25 EDT 1988 > >I've never seen the "domain" .UU.NET - is it real, or did >you make it up? If it's not real, then you'll really have trouble >getting mail from people with domain-based mailers, which is to say >"most of the world". > UUNET seems to have a MX record in their nameserver which probably looks something like this: *.uu.net in mx 10 uunet.uu.net If you run decent mailer software, this means that mail to xxxx.uu.net will get delivered to uunet.uu.net. Matched with a pretty smart sendmail.cf at uunet.uu.net, this allows the the address aleytys.uu.net to work just fine. A very nice (and maybe undocumented) feature that a uunet connection provides for UUCP only sites. -- In Real Life: Internet: esj@beach.cis.ufl.edu Eric S. Johnson II UUCP: ...{codas|gatech}!uflorida!beach.cis.ufl.edu!esj University of Florida Think of it as entropy in action :-)
rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) (06/03/88)
>UUNET seems to have a MX record in their nameserver which probably >looks something like this: > >*.uu.net in mx 10 uunet.uu.net This means FOOBAR.uu.net is legit for all values of FOOBAR. >A very nice (and maybe undocumented) feature that a uunet connection >provides for UUCP only sites. It was announced in either the Usenix newsletter :login; or in news.admin, or even both, that DARPA (the folks who paid for the Arpanet) has given permission for UUNET to act as a forwarder and domain registry between the Internet and the UUCP worlds. (The same way Horton & co. got permission to act as a UUCP domain registry.) I recall that the experiment was to last two years. This was shortly after UUNET was first set up: I'm sure something in this paragraph is now wrong. I do not know how or what UUCP subscribers to UUNET are told about the domains. I have no official affiliation with the UUNET project; queries should be directed to uunet-request@uunet.uu.net /rich (I'm not Rick Adams) $alz -- Please send comp.sources.unix-related mail to rsalz@uunet.uu.net.