Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!bbn!bbn.com!rsalz From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: new site aleytys.UU.NET Message-ID: <877@papaya.bbn.com> Date: 3 Jun 88 00:06:49 GMT Organization: BBN Laboratories Inc., Cambridge MA Lines: 27 >UUNET seems to have a MX record in their nameserver which probably >looks something like this: > >*.uu.net in mx 10 uunet.uu.net This means FOOBAR.uu.net is legit for all values of FOOBAR. >A very nice (and maybe undocumented) feature that a uunet connection >provides for UUCP only sites. It was announced in either the Usenix newsletter :login; or in news.admin, or even both, that DARPA (the folks who paid for the Arpanet) has given permission for UUNET to act as a forwarder and domain registry between the Internet and the UUCP worlds. (The same way Horton & co. got permission to act as a UUCP domain registry.) I recall that the experiment was to last two years. This was shortly after UUNET was first set up: I'm sure something in this paragraph is now wrong. I do not know how or what UUCP subscribers to UUNET are told about the domains. I have no official affiliation with the UUNET project; queries should be directed to uunet-request@uunet.uu.net /rich (I'm not Rick Adams) $alz -- Please send comp.sources.unix-related mail to rsalz@uunet.uu.net.