Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jetson!john
From: john@jetson.UUCP (John Owens)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can someone explain the relationship between domains and uucp?
Message-ID: <71@jetson.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jul 88 14:01:22 GMT
References: <1830@stpstn.UUCP> <2254@epimass.EPI.COM> <568@bnlux0.bnl.gov> <3354@palo-alto.DEC.COM>
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In article <3354@palo-alto.DEC.COM>, vixie@palo-alto.DEC.COM (Paul Vixie) writes:
> Note that site.uu.net is equivilent to site.uucp%uunet.uu.net, since uunet's
> mailer will treat them more-or-less identically.  It's not just for customers
> of uunet, though you'd need to be a customer of uunet to actually _register_
> a host.uu.net name in the uucp map.

NOTE: I believe that Rick has said that if people start using uunet as
a general Internet->UUCP gateway (like they used seismo) he will
disable auto-routing, meaning that only uunet customers will be able
to use either of the two syntaxes.

There are no sites (that I know of) that have volunteered to be
general Internet->UUCP gateways.  Specific Internet sites have agreed
to forward for specific UUCP sites; specifically, those that are
forwarders for UUCP Zone domains.

So the answer to
> # 	My site is on INTERNET and has a UUCP connection also.  Given that
> # we can reach UUCP sites via INTERNET, is it useful for a site like mine to 
> # bother with maintaining UUCP maps and pathalias?
is: Yes, definitely!  Besides letting you reach UUCP sites more
directly, you can also use the data to route via UUCP to zones that
have MX, but for which UUCP is better/faster.

Now, a question for Paul or anyone who knows:
> able to reach people who've registered their UUCP hosts with the NIC (either
> in .US or through the UUCP project or by approaching the NIC directly).  And

When did .US become active, what is it being used for, and how does
one sign up?!  I haven't heard anything since 6 months ago, when it was
totally empty.

Thanks!
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