On 2012-02-27, Michael Mol <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> As others have said it's a "bang path" for UUCP routing.
>>
>> It was used for mail routing even when not strictly using UUCP as
>> well.
Interesting. That's something I wasn't aware of.
>> This was before such thing as DNS and you got to pass around host tables
>> (/etc/hosts) which contained all known hosts and their IP addresses.
>
> Predates me somewhat, but I believe UUCP operated over DUN/direct
> serial without the IP layer, as well.
Yes, UUCP worked over both TCP and dial-up.
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