Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf.edu!wet!epsilon From: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: How do I find the domain of a friend? Message-ID: <446@wet.UUCP> Date: 19 Aug 89 14:57:20 GMT References:<5446@inco.UUCP> <5455@inco.UUCP> Reply-To: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) Distribution: news Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco Lines: 16 In article <5455@inco.UUCP> mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack) writes: >Since posting this, I have been informed (translation: been beaten >savagely about the head and shoulders and told) that name servers >do not, in general, do mail routing within domains. I don't think most readers understand what this means; while the Domain Name Service has the capability to provide information about individual user mailboxes, most sites use alternative facilities (which predate DNS, "ain't broke and don't need fixing") for the per-user stuff. "Routing" as uucpers understand it (i.e. per-host) is most definitely done within domains, and name servers are very much responsible for making this work right. -=EPS=-