[8559] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Independent Milnet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Williams)
Mon Nov 22 16:29:17 1993
From: sdw@meaddata.com (Stephen Williams)
To: macnabr@cc.ims.disa.mil (Robert MacNab)
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1993 16:27:39 -0500 (EST)
Cc: brad@looking.clarinet.com, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9310227540.AA754010723@CC.IMS.DISA.MIL> from "Robert MacNab" at Nov 22, 93 03:25:23 pm
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> Brad, thanks for the comment. We don't think that MX will work because
> all the servers on the Internet would have to track it and they are out
> of our reach. I'm adding your note to the read file here.
> Bob
I think you misunderstand how MX records work, and possibly DNS in
general. Any kind of email connection (which is germain to MX
records) can have a representative MX record. All it is is a pointer
to say if you are trying to reach anything in domain (can be general
or specific from .mil to a particular machine) X, send it to system Y.
You don't have to have anything to control it, you just have to have a
machine (the one that exists for .mil could do it) that is on internet
do it for you.
sdw
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