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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)
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Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco
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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=-