Re: Mixed format addresses

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From: John Stanley
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 04:43

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In article <Bz828H.BoC@cs.psu.edu> fenner@snobol.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes:
>In article <1gg7eeINNfve@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley) writes:
>|For someone who is adamant that nothing in the UUCP maps could possibly
>|apply to Internet sites, why this sudden compulsion that MX records
>|must apply to UUCP sites?
>
>I didn't say anything about MX records applying to UUCP sites.  I said that
>the original design goal of the DNS was that everyone would have a domain
>name.  

Including UUCP sites. Register in the .us domain and get an MX record, I
believe, is your opinion of the entire problem of gatewaying to UUCP. If
not, it is a very close approximation.

>|>Using the DNS, I have no need to store any information about anyone on
>|>my computer; I can just look it up.  
>|
>|And just, pray tell, if you keep no information about anyone in your
>|computer, who do you talk to to look it up?
>
>Ever so sorry; I need to store one IP address of a name server.

One IP address for a gateway.

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