From: sjsobol@wariat.org (Steven J. Sobol)
Subject: Re: My new domain name -- what do I do with it?
Organization: APK Public Access Unix * Cleveland, OH
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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 19:19:39 GMT

In article <9212099276@erato.iowa-city.ia.us> you wrote:
: I've just got the domain name erato.iowa-city.ia.us, and I'm not
: quite sure how (or whether) to represent it my the UUCP map entry.
: Please enlighten me, so I can be a good net citizen. :)
: 
: -John D. Boggs     jdb@erato.iowa-city.ia.us

Here goes.

: #N	tiny, tiny.com
        ^^^^^note the inclusion of the domain in the #N line. There
	is some question as to whether this is correct if you are going
	to be including 'tiny.com' in the pathalias entry. (At least I've
	gotten into some arguments about this. :) However, it probably won't
	hurt, and many, many people do it that way. In your case:

#N	erato, erato.iowa-city.ia.us (assuming your UUCP name is 'erato'.)

: tiny=	tiny.com, tiny.tiny.com, cleveland.tiny.com
^^^^^^^^ This states that the domain addresses 'tiny.com', 'tiny.tiny.com'
	 and 'cleveland.tiny.com' all point to the same uucp site (i.e.,
	 tiny. In your case:

erato=	erato.iowa-city.ia.us   (again, assuming your UUCP name is 'erato'.)

: tiny	.tiny.com
^^^^^^^	This is a pathalias entry. It states that tiny connects to all 
	computers with addresses ending in '.tiny.com'. In effect, all
	mail to site-x.tiny.com or site-y.tiny.com or site-z.tiny.com is
	routed through tiny. This is used by sites that use the pathalias
	program to help determine correct routing.

	(Since you are a subdomain of .US you will not need this. If you
	ever get your own domain, though, you will need to do something
	like this and include an #F line listing the machine which forwards
	mail to you from the Internet.)

tiny	wariat(DAILY),turnbull(DEAD),hernix(WEEKLY),brauhaus(WEEKLY)
^^^^^^^   And this is the standard line stating our UUCP connections.
 
To put it into context, here is my full map entry.

#N	tiny, tiny.com
#F	usenet.ins.cwru.edu
#S	Digital-One 386sx; Coherent 4.0.1
#O	The Tiny Software Company, Cleveland, OH
#C	Steven J. Sobol
#E	tiny!postmaster
#T	+1 216 691-1169  
#P	23707 Glenhill Drive, Cleveland, OH 44122
#L	41 39 55 N / 081 25 03 W city
#U	wariat
#R	.
#R	tiny is the gateway for domain 'tiny.com'.
#R	this is a temporary entry until I get my equipment 
#R	upgraded and my connections fixed.
#R	.
#W	tiny!sjsobol (Steve Sobol); Fri Nov 13 18:42:05 EST 1992
tiny=	tiny.com, tiny.tiny.com, cleveland.tiny.com
tiny	.tiny.com
tiny	wariat(DAILY),turnbull(DEAD),hernix(WEEKLY),brauhaus(WEEKLY)

********

Any questions?

--
Steve Sobol   Head Cheerleader, APK Public Access *nix/Internet
(216) 481-9436 <2400 baud>     (216) 481-9425 <v.32bis, TurboPEP>
Telnet: wariat.org   To register: send e-mail to info@wariat.org, or
log in to BBS and download file 'user.new' from file area 2.

Also President of The Tiny Software Co.   E-Mail Address: sjsobol@tiny.com
-- 
Steve Sobol   Head Cheerleader, APK Public Access *nix/Internet
(216) 481-9436 <2400 baud>     (216) 481-9425 <v.32bis, TurboPEP>
Telnet: wariat.org   To register: send e-mail to info@wariat.org, or
log in to BBS and download file 'user.new' from file area 2.

Also President of The Tiny Software Co.   E-Mail Address: sjsobol@tiny.com