Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!AHWAHNEE.STANFORD.EDU!dcrocker From: dcrocker@AHWAHNEE.STANFORD.EDU (Dave Crocker) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Naive questions about subnets & domains Message-ID: <8908200140.AA23430@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 20 Aug 89 00:24:50 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 9 The mail path for a specific host is unrelated to its location in the domain name space. Hence, Keith, your suggestion does seem to fit my understanding of domain name/mail system performance, although it DOES match most people's intuition about the system. Any leaf entry (host reference) may have any IP address for itself or its MX (mail relay) attributes. Dave