MailDomain project

The purpose of this project is to provide a mechenism for distribution of an Email forwarding database for multiple Email domains. In essence it provides the administrator of some.dom.ain, a virtual server off of some common host computer, to be able to determine where some.user@some.dom.aine will go to independant of where some.user@some.other.dom.aine is going (Where some.other.dom.aine is also a domain on this single host computer).

This technology will provide small organizations with the ability to manage their own Email domains, sending the Email to the correct final destination, without the need of setting up their own resources for an Email system. This technology will also be used in the implementation of a Common Email project which will provide this service to individual users within the community.

Status

The status of this project can always be found by reading the latest messages in the comnet-www discussion group.

The domain is currently in use on a number of domains off of the FLORA and Sandelman servers.

If you set up a server and domains under this system, please let us know. This system can greatly enhance the connectivity of a network when people secondary other domains.

Hesiod

The Hesiod environment was chosen for this project. This is a naming system based on BIND that allows for distributed namespaces. The data for any given domain can be easily shared amongst different computers, with the master database being able to be received from many different locations.

To make use of the HESIOD distributed namespace for users you must first obtain the following 3 packages: