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- From: stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
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- Date: 15 Dec 92 03:35:55 GMT
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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.
-