To designate an address or hostname connected via UUCP networking
Actual use
Was widely used in late 1980s, but is no longer in use
Registration restrictions
No registrations are possible, as this domain is not in the root
Structure
Appended to right of UUCP hostnames; since hostnames are not necessarily globally unique, full "bang path" may be needed to actually identify them
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.uucp was a pseudo-domain-style suffix used in the late 1980s when identifying a hostname not connected directly to the Internet but possibly reachable through inter-network gateways. In this case, it indicated that the hostname preceding it was reachable by UUCP networking. This was one of several apparent "top-level domains" that were not actually in the Internet root, but were sometimes used in addresses during the time when non-Internet networks remained in wide use. This article is about the year. ... UUCP stands for Unix to Unix CoPy, and is a computer program and protocol allowing remote execution of commands and transfer of files, email and netnews between Unix computers not connected to the Internet proper in a store and forward fashion. ... The 1980s, in its most obvious sense, was the decade between 1980 and 1989. ... UUCP stands for Unix to Unix Copy Protocol, and is a computer program and protocol allowing remote execution of commands and transfer of files, email and netnews between Unix computers not connected to the Internet proper. ... The 1980s, in its most obvious sense, was the decade between 1980 and 1989. ... UUCP stands for Unix to Unix CoPy, and is a computer program and protocol allowing remote execution of commands and transfer of files, email and netnews between Unix computers not connected to the Internet proper in a store and forward fashion. ...
As UUCP hosts were not always uniquely named, and there was no global table listing them, actual access to one (e.g., for routing e-mail to it) required the use of a full bang path, which did not follow domain-name-style syntax, unless the particular software being used had been programmed to recognize particular hostnames in a domain style and route to them. UUCP stands for Unix to Unix Copy Protocol, and is a computer program and protocol allowing remote execution of commands and transfer of files, email and netnews between Unix computers not connected to the Internet proper. ...
The choice of which one to use is partly a matter of local preferences and what is running at the other end of your UUCP connection.
Unlike good protocols that define what will go over the wire, UUCP uses the policy that you should do what is right for the other end; if they change, you have to change.
If you are using one of the domainizedUUCP mailers, you really want to convert all UUCP addresses to domain format -- otherwise, it will do it for you (and probably not the way you expected).
UUCP was originally written at ATandT Bell Laboratories, and early versions of UUCP are sometimes referred to as System VUUCP.
The original UUCP was rewritten by ATandT researchers Peter Honeyman, David A. Nowitz, and Brian E. Redman and the rewrite is referred to as HDB or HoneyDanBer uucp which was later enhanced, bug fixed, and repackaged as BNU UUCP ("Basic Network Utiltites").
UUCP over TCP/IP (preferably encrypted, such as via the SSHprotocol) can be used when a computer doesn't have any fixed IP addresses but is still willing to run a standard mail transfer agent (MTA) like Sendmail or Postfix.
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