matt@oddjob.UUCP (03/14/87)
My sendmail/named combination can find out who the name servers
are for .ac.uk but cannot reach them, nor obtain any MX records.
How should I route mail to, for example, vax2.oxford.ac.uk?
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Matt University matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu
Crawford of Chicago {astrovax,ihnp4}!oddjob!mattpc@ukc.ac.uk (R.P.A.Collinson) (03/15/87)
In article <3702@oddjob.UChicago.EDU> matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford) writes: >My sendmail/named combination can find out who the name servers >are for .ac.uk but cannot reach them, nor obtain any MX records. >How should I route mail to, for example, vax2.oxford.ac.uk? Please do NOT ROUTE mail for vax2.oxford.ac.uk via ukc. The current situation is that UUCP users in the UK pay for incoming mail from the USA. Some people are happy to do this and some are not. The management at vax[123].oxford very certainly are NOT. Their users originate mail through the ARPA gateway at cs.ucl.ac.uk or the EARN gateway at the Rutherford labs (I am not sure how external people address this) - you should route mail back through these gateways. We are happy to carry mail to all the sites mentioned in the UK UUCP maps - u.gbr.[12] (currently nearly 200 machines) since we can recover our transmission and reception costs from them. We are not happy to carry mail to sites which have not registered with us and do not appear in the UK maps. The traffic for such unregistered sites is growing and mail from the USA addressed to unregistered sites will soon be diverted to /dev/null since I refuse to pay twice for the mail. (Once from the USA to here and once back - with a bounce message). This seems hard, but underlines the fact that mail is NOT free - someone always pays. In the UK, it is the users. If some nice USA funding authority is prepared to pay me my costs to ship mail from the USA into the UK then things might change.