Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!intercon!amanda@intercon.UUCP From: amanda@intercon.UUCP (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Re^4: Short-circuiting a route Message-ID: <29-Jun-89.124341@192.41.214.2> Date: 29 Jun 89 16:29:03 GMT References: <1930@lokkur.UUCP> <562@daitc.daitc.mil> <89Jun28.104844edt.10373@neat.ai.toronto.edu> Sender: news@intercon.UUCP Reply-To: amanda@intercon.UUCP (Amanda Walker) Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation Lines: 19 In article <1930@lokkur.UUCP>, scs@lokkur.UUCP (Steve Simmons) writes: > My wife recently brought home a printout of a recipe from a co-worker. > On reading it, it was sent to ruth_simmons@aa.va.gov. It was from somebody > with a similar address. I attempted to send her mail. No IP address, no > MX records. Imagine my surprise on interrogating 'whois' and finding no > va.gov nor aa.va.gov. [...] is their address legitimate, even though > there appears to be no normally accepted connection between here and > there? It's bogus. One thing about claiming to have a domain is that you must have name servers registered for that domain. If the nameserver for .GOV doesn't know about VA.GOV, it doesn't exist. -- Amanda Walker InterCon Systems Corporation -- "Those preachers are right--there's more in these songs than meets the eye..." --Arlo Guthrie