At 08:50 PM 3/31/99 +00-04, Kerry Miller wrote:
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>Roeland,
>
>> A part of "everything right" is providing a gateway mechanism for
>> those systems that can not resolve the TLD, yet have mail to
>> deliver. It is one of a few remaining technical barriers to
>> non-rooted TLDs. There is an answer in the implementation of a few
>> "smart relay" hubs, that act as gateways.
>
>Are you saying that a server could dispatch a look-up request in
>the same way it does a 'real' message, and other nodes would
>either resolve the DN or pass the query along until it was?
No, I am saying that the mail system, when confronted by a destination
address it doesn't know, should forward the message to a relay that may
know better what to do with the message. This algorithm was worked out over
15 years ago, in fidonet systems. Alternatively, equivalent addresses can
be mapped out in some TLD's SLD space and addresses can be handled by the
gateway's rewriting rule-sets (another algorithm worked out over ten years
ago, I still have the code). Both algorithms are currently implemented in
ifmail.
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