Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!usc!sdd.hp.com!caen!math.lsa.umich.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!emv From: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: Soviet Unix User Group Message-ID: Date: 21 Sep 90 00:16:59 GMT References: <1990Sep20.132235.911@hq.demos.su> <8552@ncar.ucar.edu> <1990Sep20.164828.2391@hq.demos.su> <1990Sep20.205451.29419@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> Sender: usenet@math.lsa.umich.edu Organization: University of Michigan Math Dept., Ann Arbor MI. Lines: 39 In-Reply-To: david@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov's message of 20 Sep 90 20:54:51 GMT In article <1990Sep20.205451.29419@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> david@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (David Robinson) writes: The first project for DEMOS is to get their domain properly registered, that or stop using "hq.demos.su" in the From: and Reply headers. It's an OK domain in Europe: urania ~ % dig mx @mcsun.eu.net hq.demos.su ;; ANSWERS: hq.demos.su. 86400 IN MX 100 mcsun.eu.net. hq.demos.su. 86400 IN MX 200 uunet.uu.net. and it looks like there's international root servers for the .su domain: urania ~ % dig ns @mcsun.eu.net su. ;; ANSWERS: su. 86400 IN NS mcsun.eu.net. su. 86400 IN NS sunic.sunet.se. su. 86400 IN NS uunet.uu.net. su. 86400 IN NS brouilly.inria.fr. su. 86400 IN NS munnari.oz.au. su. 86400 IN SOA mcsun.eu.net. hostmaster.mcsun.eu.net. So I'd attribute the problems to slowness in getting this information into the USA root servers, including ns.nasa.gov, ns.nic.ddn.mil. As I understand it some USA networks have explicit provisions that they not be connected to "Eastern bloc" networks; I don't know if international concerns like that are the reason here or whether it's simply a matter of time before the update makes it in. --Ed Edward Vielmetti, U of Michigan math dept moderator, comp.archives