Re: Mixed format addresses

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2 total messages Started by John Stanley Tue, 15 Dec 1992 03:35

#3379

Author: John Stanley
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 03:35

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In article <Bz8q7n.293@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
>And from what you're saying, you don't really want to be in charge of
>your own little section of the DNS because it's too much trouble to do
>correctly.

It would be nice, but I don't need to be in charge of it. 

>So, register in the .US domain, where there are nice people at ISI to
>take care of the nitty-gritty details for you.

Why? Isn't my current MX record adequate?  I seem to recall saying that
I was aware of wildcard MX's because I already had one.

>Okay, so the root nameservers is "someone".  I still think it's a lot
>more reliable and efficient to store 32 bits of information on each of
>a dozen machines -- especially when that data changes very rarely --
>than it is to store 500 bytes or so of data on each of thousands of
>hosts.

So, don't store 500 bytes or so of data for thousands of hosts.

>Registering in the .US domain is no more difficult than
>registering in the UUCP maps, and you won't even have to find another
>machine to connect to if you're already talking to an
>Internet-connected machine who is willing to forward mail for you.  

Uhh, let's see here. If I register in the UUCP maps, I don't need to
find any other machine to talk to, whether on the Internet or not. If I
register in the .US domain, I need to be talking to an Internet
connected machine who is willing to forward mail to me. If I am not,
then I need to find one. The latter seems to be more effort than the
former.

Re: Mixed format addresses

#3383

Author: Christopher Davis
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 05:37

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JS> == John Stanley <stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU>

 JS> Uhh, let's see here. If I register in the UUCP maps, I don't need to
 JS> find any other machine to talk to, whether on the Internet or not.

Not that it wouldn't be tough to get you mail if you don't talk to anyone.

 JS> If I register in the .US domain, I need to be talking to an Internet
 JS> connected machine who is willing to forward mail to me. If I am not,
 JS> then I need to find one. The latter seems to be more effort than the
 JS> former.

Well, you need to find one that is willing to route (not punt; I make a
distinction between "hand all mail of a certain class to this site" and
"route all mail of a certain class according to this database", even if you
don't) mail to you.  You can be ten hops off the Internet as long as some
Internet site is willing to convert mail for "user@stanley.podunk.nd.us" to
"nearby!farther!wayout!boonies!stanley!user".
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