Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hou3c.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!ka From: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Newsgroups: net.mail Subject: Re: Site names as uucp domains Message-ID: <236@hou3c.UUCP> Date: Sun, 5-Feb-84 17:59:43 EST Article-I.D.: hou3c.236 Posted: Sun Feb 5 17:59:43 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 09:42:19 EST References: <426@psuvax.UUCP>, <758@ulysses.UUCP> <3508@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 10 One additional problem with using machine names as domain names is that domains may wish to have more than one gateway site. This makes a lot of sense for domains that are geographicly distributed, such as the proposed ".att" domain. Sites could use whichever gateway was closest to them, so that (for example) a site in New Jersey could use a machine in New Jersey as a gateway rather than sending the mail halfway across the country to ihnp4. Furthermore, at some point the quantity of mail traffic in and out of AT&T will become too great for one machine to handle. Kenneth Almquist