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From: "Mark R. Ludwig" <Mark-Ludwig@uai.com> To: Paul Rarey <Paul.Rarey@ssf-sys.dhl.com> Cc: Marvin Sirbu <ms6b+@andrew.cmu.edu>, com-priv@psi.com In-Reply-To: <9311181026.ZM18969@maverick.ssf-sys.DHL.COM> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1993 10:35:15 -0800 >>>>> "Paul" == Paul Rarey <Paul.Rarey@ssf-sys.dhl.com> writes: Paul> On Nov 18, 10:22, Marvin Sirbu wrote: Paul> } Whatever the difficulties that a small group of administrators would Paul> } experience in arranging to maintain the use of standard email addresses, Paul> } it is nothing as compared to the wasted effort that would be expended by Paul> } tens of thousands of users who would struggle to find the right Paul> } incantation to reach desired mail correspondents. I agree that this is Paul> } a terribly short-sighted proposal, Paul> I don't mean to add to the condemnation, but if administrators Paul> can't grappel with DNS configs, how do they expect to be able to Paul> run a sizable net? Hold it! A network is a collection of sites. MILNET is no different, and the point is that the administrators at some sites on MILNET are not fully up-to-speed with configuring DNS in the current environment, which I have labeled straight-forward. I can only speak to my experience with one not-trivially-small site. My point is that the suggestion to segregate MILNET and play DNS tricks to make it seem to not be segregated is much more challenging, and if the burden is placed on the individual sites, and if my experience with current DNS configuration is indicative of the general situation among the sites on MILNET, I predict a negative outcome. If my experience is indicative, right now they get away with it all by using IP numbers.$$ -- INET: Mark-Ludwig@UAI.COM NIC: ML255 ICBM: USA; Lower Left Coast "Anything worth doing in Japan is worth doing in a crowd." -- T. R. Reid
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