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- From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Message-ID: <Bz8q7n.293@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 08:28:34 GMT
- References: <1gh2pdINNj8g@gaia.ucs.orst.edu>
- Organization: The Programmer's Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI
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- In article <1gh2pdINNj8g@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley) writes:
- >Neither of these puts me in charge of my little section of the DNS. They
- >put me in contact with someone else, who is in charge of my little
- >section. Not the same thing.
-
- 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.
-
- So, register in the .US domain, where there are nice people at ISI to
- take care of the nitty-gritty details for you.
-
- >> JS> With the DNS, it is easy to poke incorrect data into the database and
- >> JS> *poof* EVERYONE is using bogus data.
-
- With the UUCP maps, it's just as easy to poke the incorrect data into
- the database, except once it's in there it becomes a lot more
- difficult to remove. How many sites out there are still using
- outdated versions of the maps?
-
- The UUCP maps are a lot less deterministic when it comes to routing.
- If I want to make sure that all mail for machine A gets sent through
- machine B, where machine A talks to around 15 different sites, I have
- to play games with the costs in machine B's map or in the maps of all
- the other sites machine A talks to. And if one of them puts too low
- of a cost for machine A in their map, the mail will get misrouted for
- the next month.
-
- >Sigh. You must keep something that tells you who a root nameserver is.
- >That is, indeed, keeping some information about someone.
-
- 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.
-
- >if you wish. It is still not a reasonable expectation for every UUCP
- >site to have an MX record, whether it is its own or part of a
- >wildcard.
-
- I disagree. 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. If
- you don't feel like doing that you can always pay UUNET or MSEN $35 to
- register your domain for you.
-
- --
- Marc Unangst, N8VRH | "Of course, in order to understand this you
- mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | have to remember that the nucleus of the atom
- | is squishy."
- | -W. Scheider, from a Physics lecture
-