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
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 >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
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