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In article <3871@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>  Why doesn't bitnet doesn't have a DNS domain name?  It sure seems like having:
>
>         *.bitnet.net	MX	10	cunyvm.cuny.edu
>
>  would make a lot of sense.  It would be one less hack we'd all have to
>  worry about getting right in our sendmail.cf (or whatever) files.

Ouch. That would force *all* Internet -> BITNET traffic through one
site (cunyvm.cuny.edu).

That would be a fine idea if there was only the one gateway between
the two networks.

However, there are many other gateways which may be used that do not
require sending the packets all across the NSFNet. Especially for West
Coast Internet sites.


Besides, cunyvm.cuny.edu refuses all e-mail from our 3com.com domain
with error messages like:

220 CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU running IBM VM SMTP R1.1 on Mon, 17 Jul 89 12:53:23 EDT 
helo bridge2.esd.3com.com 
501 Syntax Error. Start Domain with 'a'..'z' or 'A'..'Z' 

(Note: I really wish that IBM was more forgiving. Hopefully, when the
new Host Requirements RFC is published (officially allowing names like
3com.com) they will 'fix' their SMTP implementation...the next step
after that will be to convince all the sites using IBM VM SMTP R1.1 to
upgrade to the new version ;-< )

so if there were a special bitnet.net, some sites (like ours) would
probably *still* have to fudge it the old way.
--
Mark D. Baushke
UUCP:	    {3comvax,auspex,sun}!bridge2!mdb
Internet:   mdb@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM