Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!itivax!scs From: scs@itivax.iti.org (Steve C. Simmons) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re^6: Short-circuiting a route Message-ID: <1890@itivax.iti.org> Date: 30 Jun 89 16:02:40 GMT References: <1930@lokkur.UUCP> <562@daitc.daitc.mil> <89Jun28.104844edt.10373@neat.ai.toronto.edu> <29-Jun-89.124341@192.41.214.2> Organization: Industrial Technology Institute, Ann Arbor, MI. Lines: 24 amanda@intercon.UUCP (Amanda Walker) writes: >In article <1930@lokkur.UUCP>, scs@lokkur.UUCP (Steve Simmons) writes: > [[description of my wifes email address claiming to be aa.va.gov]] >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. So I would presume. But here we have a case of a site which looks like an internet address, feels like an internet address, but is *not* an internet address. Let's say that I now set up my home machine to talk to my wifes work machine. Thus the route ...!lokkur.dexter.mi.us!aa.va.gov!ruth_simmons is correct (since aa.va.gov is a *host name*, not an address), and shortcircuiting it to ruth_simmons@aa.va.gov will never deliver. I'm curious -- is the use of aa.va.gov (or any name that looks like a valid address) as a hostname prohibited? By law? By regulation? By custom? Is there a similar set of laws/regulations that prohibit two cities in the same state from having the same name? -- Steve Simmons scs@vax3.iti.org Industrial Technology Institute Ann Arbor, MI. "Velveeta -- the Spam of Cheeses!" -- Uncle Bonsai