Xref: utzoo news.sysadmin:3172 comp.mail.uucp:4895 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mesquite.charcoal.com!charcoal.com!karl_kleinpaste From: karl_kleinpaste@charcoal.com Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Passing proprietary messages through competitors or other sites Message-ID: Date: 1 Aug 90 00:43:11 GMT References: Sender: karl_kleinpaste@mesquite.charcoal.com Followup-To: news.sysadmin,comp.mail.uucp Organization: Charcoal Communicators Lines: 22 frotz@drivax.uucp writes: fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) writes: ] If you just mean you'll shortcut to the last FQDN in the path, never mind, ] I think that's pretty well understood by everyone. OK. I'll byte. What is FQDN? I have not seen this before and neither has anyone else locally. FQDN == fully-qualified domain name, i.e., a dot-separated group of names which describe (e.g.) a host hierarchically within the universe of all hosts. "mesquite.charcoal.com," "tut.cis.ohio-state.edu," "turbo.bio.net," and "rutgers.edu" are FQDNs. "drivax" is an unqualified hostname (occasionally "OWHN," a one-word host name), as typically found in UUCP subsystems. "drivax.uucp" is a fake domain name, in that there is no top-level ".uucp" domain registered in the DNS (Domain Name System). It is frequently (usually?) recognized by convention (as is ".bitnet") but strictly-conforming Internet sites do not recognize it. I think I'm going to include a glossary of this stuff when I finish the FAQ articles on domain registration.