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From: fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald)
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Subject: Re: Convincing Smail to use FQDNs
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Date: 8 Sep 90 04:11:04 GMT
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joe@cbnews.att.com (Joseph Judge) writes:
> 	Peter, Tom, how do you get these "lists" of hosts to put
> 	into your "INTERNET = { ...}" or "site internet(local)" records?

This is the wrong answer, but you just gotta know.  I've got a map of
NEARnet here I use to identify local sites.  Some people advertise their
IP addresses in their map entries.  You can pretty much assume that
anyone with a domain is not more than one hop off the Internet, though as
Peter and the gentleman at AthabascaU can testify, that can be one long
hop.  [Actually some domain addresses are more than one hop off, but very
very few].

It would be _real_nice_ if this stuff was in the map entries....

#F	Internet forwarder (destination for MX record)
#I	IP address, for connected sites

Some people use the #F line, but it's not real consistent.  With the #F line
we could tell for sure whether changing "site1!site2!host" to "site1!host.com"
would be harmful.

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