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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
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> 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