Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!bloom-beacon!snorkelwacker!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ziploc!eps From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: Converting Internet addresses to UUCP addresses Summary: Internet sites can interpret ! however they choose Message-ID: <275@toaster.SFSU.EDU> Date: 24 Jan 90 11:31:36 GMT References: <325@fltk.UUCP> <2193@stealth.acf.nyu.edu> <1160@scorn.sco.COM> <1644@dsac.dla.mil> <160.25af4890@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu> <270@toaster.SFSU.EDU> <1670@scorn.sco.COM> Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Organization: San Francisco State University Lines: 29 In article <1670@scorn.sco.COM> davidbe@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat) writes: >To get mail to Bill without attracting the attention of the IPP, mail to: >acad3.fai.alaska.edu!hayes.fai.alaska.edu!wisner That will almost certainly bounce when it gets to acad3, as it will have been rewritten as hayes.fai.alaska.edu!wisner@acad3.fai.alaska.edu and I don't expect what looks like a VAX running TWG to accept the left hand side of that. *NO* Internet site need understand bang paths. >(sending directly to hayes would probably work, as nslookup may not be >completely up to date. it would get to fai, and locally get sent to >the proper place.) Sorry, that's not how it works. If nslookup can't find it, nothing else has a prayer. Messages do not get sent to fai first (though fai.alaska.edu happens to be valid, there's no no "requirement" for a host to "be its domain"). In any case, I received mail from Bill saying that (1) the DNS information for his machine is screwed up, and he's been trying to get the appropriate administrators to fix this and (2) please not to use acad3 as a relay because it is screwed up even more. What he didn't send me was a domain literal, which could work around the lack of name service. I trust that the problems are being attended to. -=EPS=-