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In the referenced article, oc@vmp.com (Orlan Cannon) writes:
>
>To register through UUNET, you must find a UUNET subscriber who is
>willing to forward all your mail for you.

This is false. You must find an Internet site that is willing to
forward for you, but that site doesn't have to have any relationship
at all to UUNET. We forward for about two dozen domains in the south
S.F. Bay Area, most of whom registered their domain through UUNET.
We are not related to UUNET in any way, save that both Apple and UUNET
are on the Internet.

>All mail generated on the
>Internet or rabidly rerouted on the Internet will be routed to
>UUNET.

This is false. The only E-mail we route through UUNET is E-mail that
is destined for their subscribers, as indicated in the UUCP maps. All
other routers who use the maps (and I dare say that all of them do; to
do otherwise would be stupid) behave the same way (that is, they route
appropriate traffic through UUNET).

>
>>Does the NIC play a part in the registration process? If so how?
>
>The NIC is the final word in registrations.  It keeps a master copy of
>all registrations, makes sure there are no duplicates domain names,
>etc.  It generates a new and definitive HOSTS.TXT every two weeks.

HOSTS.TXT and the DNS are pretty much divorced at this point. Perhaps
you were thinking of DOMAINS.TXT?

	Erik E. Fair	apple!fair	fair@apple.com