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- From: barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr)
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
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- Organization: Penn State Population Research Institute
- References: <1gg7eeINNfve@gaia.ucs.orst.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 23:43:41 GMT
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- In article <1gg7eeINNfve@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley) writes:
- >I can be in charge of my "little section" of the DNS?
-
- Yes.
-
- >Really?
-
- You bet!
-
- >From a UUCP site?
-
- Uh-huh.
-
- >Just what protocol do YOU know of that will allow a UUCP site to change the
- >DNS records for its MX site?
-
- mail hostmaster@my.mx.dom.ain
-
- And guess what, if you were to update your UUCP map entry, you'd have to
- do something similar anyway.
-
- >>With the UUCP maps, it's easy for
- >>automated unpacking systems to break, sysadmin doesn't notice, *poof*,
- >>you're using old data.
- >
- >With the DNS, it is easy to poke incorrect data into the database and
- >*poof* EVERYONE is using bogus data.
-
- And as soon as the Postmaster the MX site sees the problem, he fixes
- his DNS database and *poof* everyone is using correct data.
-
- >>|You'll NEVER have the case where EVERYONE is registered in MX.
- >>
- >>You mean the DNS. Why not? That was the original design goal.
- >
- >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?
-
- They don't have to apply. All Bill, Chris, me, and others are saying if
- you want to continue using pathalias, fine, but don't cry when J.
- Random Site on the Internet can't send mail to you, since there's no
- offical system to provide Internet->UUCP gateways for all Internet members.
- Understand? The solution is to get yourself a registered DNS MX record,
- and a site to MX for you. Plain and simple.
-
- --Dave
- --
- System Administrator, Population Research Institute barr@pop.psu.edu
- What if there was no such thing as a hypothetical question?
-