Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!FERNWOOD.MPK.CA.US!geoff From: geoff@FERNWOOD.MPK.CA.US (the tty of Geoff Goodfellow) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin Subject: How to sign-up a host in the .US Domain. Message-ID: <8807141838.0.UUL1.3#948@Fernwood.MPK.CA.US> Date: 15 Jul 88 02:38:23 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 241 What's required to register a UUCP host in the .US domain: o a copy of the US DOMAIN QUESTIONNAIRE FOR HOST ENTRY, o a friendly Internet host to act as your mail forwarder, o a UUCP map entry. ------- 1. Request a copy of the US DOMAIN QUESTIONNAIRE FOR HOST ENTRY from Ann Westine/ {backbone-site}!isi.edu!Westine (a copy is included at the end of this posting). 2. All hosts in the US Domain are of the form: Hostname.City.STATE.US, i.e. Fernwood.MPK.CA.US or Lurker.Irvine.CA.US. There is no standard for "City". Either pick your city's full name or make up a reasonable abbreviation of it (all future hosts in your city will be registered under it). I choose MPK to represent Menlo Park, since it was our Western Union answerback city code and is short. Here's what the initial application for Fernwood.MPK.CA.US looked like (the following example is outdated and *NOT* current information): (1) The name of the top-level domain to join. US (2) The NIC handle of the administrative head of the organization. GEOF (3) The NIC handle of the technical contact for the entry. GEOF (4) The name of the host. Fernwood.MPK.CA.US (5) Please describe your organization briefly. Fernwood is a PC/GRiD File Server/LAN-Internet/UUCP/MCI-Mail liaison. (6) What RR records and values are to be entered. Fernwood.MPK.CA.US IN HINFO PC-XT/GRiD-1701 PC-DOS/GRiD-OS IN MX 10 unix.sri.com (7) Where is the IN-ADDR pointer record to be entered. n/a (8) What TTL One Week 604800 (9) CNAME Record if any. none 3. Arrange for an Internet host to act as your MX Record relay/forwarder. a MX (Mail eXchange) record contains the host name(s) of systems which accept mail for your host and then forward it along to you. The mail forwarding host will need to put a hack in its sendmail.cf file (or in whatever mail system they run) to translate mail for User@YourHost.City.STATE.US to YourUUCPHostname!User. Note: your UUCP host name and your US Domain host name do not necessarily have to be the same (although its recommended they be). Erik Fair kindly provided sri-unix a sendmail.cf rule to translate mail for User@Fernwood.MPK.CA.US to fernwood!User. The rule is inserted the in the machine dependent section of ruleset zero, before the general purpose TCP/SMTP mailer call: R$*<@fernwood.mpk.ca.us>$* $#uucp$@fernwood$:$1 4. Fill out a uucp map entry template and mail it off to your regional map coordinator. Here's what the initial uucp map entry for Fernwood.MPK.CA.US looked like (the following example is outdated and *NOT* current information): #N fernwood, .fernwood.mpk.ca.us #F unix.sri.com #S WGS-PCXT / GRiD Server 1701; PC-DOS 3.2 / GRiD Server OS 11.1.0 #O fernwood is a PC/GRiD File Server/LAN-Internet/UUCP/MCI-Mail liaison. #C Geoff Goodfellow #E Geoff@fernwood.mpk.ca.us, fernwood!Geoff #T +1 415 325 7335 #P P.O. Box 1206, Menlo Park, CA 94026-1206 #L 37 27 30 N / 122 10 20 W #U quintus #R Registered in US Domain #W fernwood!geoff; May 11, 1988 # fernwood .fernwood.mpk.ca.us fernwood= fernwood.mpk.ca.us fernwood sri-unix(DEMAND) ------- Jon Postel & Ann Westine November 1987 US DOMAIN QUESTIONNAIRE FOR HOST ENTRY To register a host in the US domain, the following information must be sent to the US Domain Registrar (WESTINE@ISI.EDU). Questions may be sent by electronic mail to the above address, or by phone at (213-822- 1511). NOTE: The key people must have electronic mailboxes and NIC "handles," unique NIC database identifiers. If you have access to "WHOIS", please check to see if you are registered and if so, make sure the information is current. Include only your handle and any changes (if any) that need to be made in your entry. If you do not have access to "WHOIS", please provide all the information indicated. (1) The name of the top-level domain to join. For example: US (2) The NIC handle of the administrative head of the organization. Alternately, the person's name, title, mailing address, phone number, organization, and network mailbox. This is the contact point for administrative and policy questions about the domain. In the case of a research project, this should be the principal investigator. For example: Administrator Organization The NetWorthy Corporation Name Penelope Q. Sassafrass Title President Mail Address The NetWorthy Corporation 4676 Andrews Way, Suite 100 Santa Clara, CA 94302-1212 Phone Number (415) 123-4567 Net Mailbox Sassafrass@ECHO.TNC.COM NIC Handle PQS (3) The NIC handle of the technical contact for the entry. Alternately, the person's name, title, mailing address, phone number, organization, and network mailbox. This is the contact point for problems concerning the domain or zone, as well as for updating information about the domain or zone. For example: Technical Contact Organization The NetWorthy Corporation Name Ansel A. Aardvark Title Executive Director Mail Address The NetWorthy Corporation 4676 Andrews Way, Suite 100 Santa Clara, CA. 94302-1212 Phone Number (415) 123-6789 Net Mailbox Aardvark@ECHO.TNC.COM NIC Handle AAA2 (4) The name of the host. This is the name that will be used in tables and lists associating the domain with the domain server addresses. [While, from a technical standpoint, domain names can be quite long (programmers beware), shorter names are easier for people to cope with.] For example: NetWorthy.Santa-Clara.CA.US (5) Please describe your organization briefly. For example: The NetWorthy Corporation is a consulting organization of people working with UNIX and the C language in an electronic networking environment. It sponsors two technical conferences annually and distributes a bimonthly newsletter. (6) What RR records and values are to be entered. a. A Internet Address b. HINFO Host Information, Machine System c. WKS Well Known Services, Protocols, Ports d. MX Mail Exchanger For example: NetWorthy.Santa-Clara.CA.US IN A 128.9.3.123 IN HINFO SUN-3/11OC UNIX IN MX 0 ISI.EDU IN WKS 128.9.3.133. UDP (echo tftp) IN WKS 128.9.3.133. TCP (telnet ftp tftp finger) Who is the contact for the zone of the IN-ADDR-ARPA data, where this record will be entered? (7) Where is the IN-ADDR pointer record to be entered. For example: 123.3.9.128.IN-ADDR.ARPA. PTR NetWorthy.Santa-Clara.CA.US (8) What TTL For example: One Week 604800 (9) CNAME Record if any. A nicname to official name entry For example: ANN.MDR.CA.US CNAME WESTINE.ISI.EDU NOTE: In general CNAMES are undesirable, and usually only used temporarily when a host is changing from one official name to another. NOTE: No other RRs are allowed for the name defined by a CNAME record. ------- The US Domain name servers run on internet hosts venera.isi.edu & vaxa.isi.edu. US Domain name service requests will be given NS records to these hosts by the root domain system. Geoff Goodfellow Member, .US Domain Geoff@fernwood.mpk.ca.us {ames,sun,decwrl,sri-unix}!fernwood!Geoff