Mike Ruskai wrote in a message to David Calafrancesco:
 MR> Some senseless babbling from David Calafrancesco to Mike
 MR> Ruskai on 07-27-97  05:15 about Server questions...
 DC> I use a combination of SMTPD and Souper to feed .BAG files to GIGO for
 DC> OS2 and thence directly to FastEcho2 for maximus (squish format). All
 DC> mys users are user.name@drakkar.mhv.net or handle@drakkar.mhv.net. You
 DC> already have everything you need except a domain name. As you can see,
 DC> I save the domain registration fees by being a host node off my ISPs
 DC> domain.  
 MR> I'm still in the learning stages of Internet networking.  So
 MR> a SMTP server  somewhere that receives a message destined
 MR> for drakkar.mhv.net will not  find it in the DNS, so instead
 MR> route it to mhv.net?  Would you not then  have to be listed
 MR> in your ISP's DNS?
Of course. I am not sure if my specific domain is listed anywhere else but at 
MHV.NET But the MHV.NET is listed in the national DNSs and all sub machines 
(like my ISPs servers etc..)
 MR> I'd like to get my own domain name regardless, but the
 MR> InterNIC procedures  dictate that I get my ISP (@Home) to
 MR> list me in their DNS before I can be  listed in the root
 MR> servers.  @Home is dragging on the issue. 
They dictate that SOME one host your domain. 
Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
dave@drakkar.mhv.net
... They got the library at Alexandria, they're not getting mine! 
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