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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- In-Reply-To: dawson@willard.UUCP's message of Mon, 14 Dec 92 07:35:44 EST
- Message-ID: <CKD.92Dec14152250@loiosh.eff.org>
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- Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
- References: <1992Dec13.170721.2862@wariat.org> <0HVRVB5w165w@willard.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 20:22:52 GMT
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- WD> == Willard Dawson <dawson@willard.UUCP>
-
- WD> Ok. How, then is this different than registration in the UUCP mapping
- WD> project? For each site for which you agree to forward mail, you must
- WD> re-edit your configuration file. That corresponds exactly to the
- WD> update process for the UUCP maps, meaning that for each new
- WD> connection, a forwarding site should send in one update.
-
- Depends on the mailer software the gateway site is running. Let's say that
- someone's acting as a domain park gateway, for "foobar.org". They have a
- wildcard MX for *.foobar.org, and they run IDA sendmail.
-
- They have an entry in their mailertable:
-
- UUCP-A!%s .foobar.org
-
- This will route mail to blurfl.foobar.org to UUCP neighbor "blurfl", mail
- to willard.foobar.org to UUCP neighbor "willard", and so on. Add a new
- neighbor? Just set it right on up, the mail will get gatewayed. Adding
- automatic outbound rewriting (from blurfl!user to user@blurfl.foobar.org)
- is easy as well.
-
- Sending in updates? To where? Again, the only changes are local, and if
- you design for flexibility, you don't even need to make those.
-
- WD> So, perhaps that "update it once and forget it" idea doesn't count as an
- WD> advantage of DNS over pathalias routing.
-
- Perhaps. Depends on your viewpoint.
-
- WD> Are YOU aware of how many sites connect via UUCP? Many more than
- WD> actually get registed in either mail forwarding system, I feel sure.
- WD> The advent of cheap, readily available software to do UUCP means that
- WD> you'll see MANY more such sites. Just because the Internet, with its
- WD> much higher costs for connections, is larger at this point in time,
- WD> does not mean that it will continue to be so indefinitely.
-
- That doesn't mean those sites "connecting via UUCP" need to use the maps
- for email, as we've said before; the sites I handle MXing for are *not* in
- the maps, as UUCP is merely the best way to get their email back and forth
- to us.
-
- WD> Of course, when ISDN gets tariffed for residential consumption, and
- WD> all the people with modems rush out and buy ISDN hardware, and after
- WD> some cheap TCP/IP over ISDN software gets out in the market, then you
- WD> may see people moving away from their cheap UUCP connections in
- WD> wholesale numbers.
-
- If they want to do ftp, telnet, gopher, WAIS, WWW, and the like, they will.
- If all they want is email, they can just do UUCP. This has *nothing* to do
- with DNS vs. pathalias.
- --
- Christopher K. Davis | ``Usenet seems to run much like the Kif (or,
- <ckd@eff.org> EFF #14 | for the TV generation, Klingon) high command.
- System Administrator, EFF | Whoever takes action and can be heard wins.''
- +1 617 864 0665 [CKD1] | --Peter da Silva <peter@ferranti.com>
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