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From: jxxl@cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Need Help Routing Mail
Message-ID: <406@cs.nps.navy.mil>
Date: 9 Nov 89 23:41:44 GMT
Reply-To: jxxl@cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke)
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Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA
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I received mail as the result of a posting. All my efforts to respond to
the mail have failed.

1) Macro question: What is the appropriate newsgroup to post to for advice
in solving this problem?

2) Micro question: I'm on the Internet. The machine I want to reach is
urbana.mcd.mot.com. The mail gets deferred with a Host Name Lookup Failure.
What is a reasonable time for a name search to the top of the heirarchy?
What's the worst case time? MOT.COM is a Motorola domain, but not a host.
Does Motorola forward mail for other hosts along UUCP links? A series of hosts
the mail passed through is listed in the mail header. Should I be able to
construct an address from those?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. (Help a poor soul save his hair.)

John