Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cbosgd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!mark From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) Newsgroups: net.mail Subject: Re: Address Questions Message-ID: <569@cbosgd.UUCP> Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 01:28:19 EST Article-I.D.: cbosgd.569 Posted: Mon Dec 10 01:28:19 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 10-Dec-84 06:37:47 EST References: <14000003@smu.UUCP> <526@cbosgd.UUCP> <154@gcc-opus.ARPA> Organization: Bell Labs, Columbus Lines: 36 In article <154@gcc-opus.ARPA> brad@gcc-opus.UUCP (Brad Parker) writes: > 1. What do I read to learn about "domains" and how it affects me Watch this newsgroup. Within a month or so, we expect to post some guidelines and rules for the UUCP domain, and some related ARPANET RFC's. My paper in Salt Lake City: "What is a Domain?" might also be useful. It was posted here about 10 months ago, and if there is demand I could post it again. > 2. Is UUCP really an official domain (I've heard it's not) Not yet. There are no official domains today except "ARPA". Nobody can apply for domain status until Jan 15. Shortly thereafter, we expect to apply for domain status for UUCP. > 3. How does my local 5 machine ethernet net (wow!) fit in to > this, and should I really have it set up as an ARPA domain > internally (all internal mail says "user@host.ARPA") Absolutely not. There is a bug in sendmail, as I recall, that shows up unless you do this, but that's a bug. You can't call yourselv host.ARPA unless you have registered with the ARPA domain, which probably won't let you unless you are on the ARPANET. I don't know where gcc-opus is (why haven't you posted a newsite announcement?) but assuming that gcc is an organization near Washington DC, chances are you would fit in as opus.gcc.east.uucp under the currently envisioned framework. That is, mail to you would go to brad@opus.gcc.east.uucp. The gcc.east.uucp 3rd level domain would be your Ethernet, roughly. > 4. If internally the net should not be .ARPA, can I make up a name > like .GCC ? Yes, but not as a top level domain, you almost certainly won't qualify for a top level domain with 5 hosts. In UUCP you'd probably be 3rd level. > does .LOCAL exist ? Only as a kludge in sendmail.cf. There is no such domain. Mark Horton