Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!decwrl!palo-alto!vixie From: vixie@palo-alto.DEC.COM (Paul Vixie) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to sign-up a host in the .US Domain. Summary: one more thing Message-ID: <3441@palo-alto.DEC.COM> Date: 15 Jul 88 03:51:06 GMT References: <8807141838.0.UUL1.3#948@Fernwood.MPK.CA.US> Organization: DEC Western Research Lab Lines: 49 In <8807141838.0.UUL1.3#948@Fernwood.MPK.CA.US> geoff@FERNWOOD.MPK.CA.US (Geoff Goodfellow) writes: # 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 abbrev- # iation of it (all future hosts in your city will be registered under it). I've been working with Geoff to re-register my various personal machines in the .US domain, and I wanted to add a few comments. First, the city has to be a city. I wanted domainname.ba.ca.us, since there is a very old name called "ba" for the metropolitan area in which I live; I thought it would be better to choose a name that would still be valid if I were to move 20 feet and indicentally cross a city limit line. No dice. Neither Anne Westine (sp?) or Jon Postel has answered my plea, which usually means I don't get what I want. So I'll be moving vixie.UUCP to vixie.sf.ca.us (unless I drop the "vixie"), and if I create a second machine in my new house in Menlo Park it'll be xxxx.mpk.ca.us. Not very sensible, but I didn't make the rule. Note that these names are _hostnames_ and not _domainnames_ in the eyes of several people. You may have trouble with machine.something.mpk.ca.us, and you may not. All your hosts go directly under the .city.state.US, according to the present rules. Even if I get "them" to go for .metro-area.state.US, I don't know if they'll allow subdomains or not. I think they want orgs big enough to need more than one machine to continue to use .COM/.EDU/etc. # R$*<@fernwood.mpk.ca.us>$* $#uucp$@fernwood$:$1 Gotta love sendmail, right? If subdomains are to be allowed or used, it'll have to be: R$*<@$*fernwood.mpk.ca.us>$* $#uucp$@fernwood$:$1 ^^ note "at sign" followed by "0 or more tokens" followed by "fernwood.mpk.ca.us". And note that the domain name should be passed into the mailer: R$*<@$*fernwood.mpk.ca.us>$* $#uucp$@fernwood$:$1@$2fernwood.mpk.ca.us$3 note ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Fun fun fun. Smail 3.2 will be out RSN, they say. :-). -- Paul Vixie Digital Equipment Corporation Work: vixie@dec.com Play: paul@vixie.UUCP Western Research Laboratory uunet!decwrl!vixie uunet!vixie!paul Palo Alto, California, USA +1 415 853 6600 +1 415 864 7013