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From: pat@orac.pgh.pa.us (Pat Barron)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Some questions about pathalias and smail
Message-ID: <158@orac.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 8 Dec 88 01:33:36 GMT
References: <236@twwells.uucp> <820@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> <4957@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: pat@orac.pgh.pa.us (Pat Barron)
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In article <4957@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>The following is supposed to be illegal:
>
>     uucp-site -> Internet-site -> uucp-site
>
>It used to be that UUCP sites had names ending with .UUCP and Internet
>sites didn't.  But now many UUCP sites have domain names, and many
>Internet sites are also UUCP sites.  So how could you possibly avoid
>routings of the form shown above?

Actually, what's illegal is:

       uucp site -> DDN site -> uucp site

The DDN consists of the ARPANET, MILNET, and random other networks controlled
by DCA.  It's perfectly OK to hop through some University's campus network,
or maybe even a regional network, if those networks permit it.

As to your point about how to avoid routing through the Internet now that
UUCP sites are getting real domain names ... Repeat after me:  "Names are
not routes.  Routes are not names."

--Pat.
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