Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!Vshank%Weizmann.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA From: Vshank%Weizmann.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA (Henry Nussbacher) Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: Re: Columbia usage of internet domain Message-ID: <2646@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 03:59:12 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.2646 Posted: Thu Oct 31 03:59:12 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 08:01:42 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 19 > 2) The BITNET RSCS mail files are nice but they are glorified fancy > host tables. In the long run, some type of general gateway hack > will have to be added or better yet an distributed database > mechanism will be added since BITNET+Internet+UUCP+CSNET+MAILNET+etc. > will be too much to keep updating and storing on every single > BITNET site. VM sites that run with a mailer do *not* keep all network tables. They keep the Bitnet tables and when sending to a site the mailer scans the address following the last '.' for a domain name like: ARPA, EDU, GOV, MAILNET, etc. Bitnet sites need to keep a list of all CCnet sites since the gateway did not accept an upper level domain like: user@cwr20b.CCNET Now with CCnet accepting upper level domains, the mailer will need to scan backwards to a second level '.' to see if the mail shouldn't be routed to the normal '.EDU' gateway (currently UCBJADE - soon to become WISCVM) but rather to the CUVMA CCNET gateway. Henry Nussbacher