From:	CRDGW2::CRDGW2::MRGATE::"SMTP::UUNET.UU.NET::ESTHER!TA2" 14-JUL-1989 02:47
To:	MRGATE::"ARISIA::EVERHART"
Subj:	Test message via UUnet

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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 89 01:33:30 EDT
From: Tom Allebrandi <ta2@acci.com>
Subject: Test message via UUnet
To: vmsnet@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU
Message-Id: <8907140627.AA00539@uunet.uu.net>
X-Vms-Mail-To: UUCP%"virginia!uunet!drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu!vmsnet"

As the late lamented Ted :-) requested, here is a test message
from a UUCP site pushed through UUnet. I hand routed it with
a bangpath. I also have a test message following this one
going through my normal "gateway" to .EDU.

Per Ted's question, I am 99.9% sure that UUnet is running Domain service and
MX. UUnet.uu.net is the primary nameserver for all registered domains in the
UUCP zone. (seismo.css.gov is the secondary.) Since UUCP zone based domains
don't have Internet host numbers, it wouldn't make sense for UUnet
to be using both. I know that they respond to an NS (nameserver) request
with MX (mail exchanger) information. Mail from the Internet to the acci.com
domain now goes directly to the arpanet host down the street - it doesn't
pass through uunet at all.

More directly to Ted's point - if you are a UUCP zone based domain, UUnet
better know where you are - they are how the rest of the world finds you!

One problem however is that not all of the world knows how to issue NS
requests. For those hosts, if you are not in the hosts table, you need
to make sure that your From address arrives such that the non NS site
can find you. Usually, pushing the mail through UUnet or one of the
advertised UUCP<->Internet gateways (like DECWRL.COM) should solve the
problem.

--- Tom

Tom Allebrandi  | Advanced Computer Consulting,Inc  |  Charlottesville, VA
804 977 4272    | VMS User's Network Working Group -- The DECUS UUCP people
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