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From: jf@ap.co.umist.ac.uk (John Forrest)
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Subject: Re: Internet Interconnections
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Date: 18 Jan 91 19:24:50 GMT
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In article <1991Jan17.170659.18581@wam.umd.edu> gnamasiv@wam.umd.edu (Girirajan Namasivayam) writes:
>This is a list of Internet Interconnections, for those who may
>be interested.  I got this list from The Matrix, by John S. Quarterman.
>
>Network                        Syntax
>JANET                  user%domain.{JANET-domain}@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk
>JANET                  user%domain.{JANET-domain}@cunyvm.cuny.edu
>Starlink               user@starlink.jodrell-bank.manchester.ac.uk
>Starlink               user@star.jb.man.ac.uk

I sincerely hope that people do not have to conciously route
when sending to JANET - the UK academic network. The sorts of
addresses we are talking about are:

        jf@ap.co.umist.ac.uk
        jf@uk.ac.umist.co.ap

The second gives the traditional JNT address format - ie.
reverse of what you are probably used to. Increasingly people
use "normal" ordering. Anyway, the address looks like an
Internet address, and most internet nodes should know what to
do with them anyway - hopefully! I don't know if there is a
BIND MX entry for "*.ac.uk" - there ought to be really. Note
that the best relays to use are:

        vax.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
        sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk

These are for academic use only though.

John Forrest
Dept of Computation
UMIST