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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
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Subject: Re: Domains: Multiple names OK? (really, decommissioning of nicknames)
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Date: Tue, 16-Sep-86 11:43:30 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 16 11:43:30 1986
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In article <1109@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU> henry@athena.mit.edu writes:
 
>On the other end, bozo@seismo won't always mean bozo@seismo.css.gov;
>the domain naming system isn't compatable with the old convention.  
>Those who have always picked up the phone and asked for person A 
>at place B can still do this, but folks who mail to bozo@seismo now 
>have to mail to bozo@seismo.css.gov.  A change in action is required.
>This is the difference.

	Actually, my main problem is: how do I find out the domain
address of a site? Is there a network equivalent of a phonebook or
directory assistance somewhere? If not, is there reasonable way to
find out that, say, seismo is actually seismo.css.gov? I have had
trouble with this before. Many postings from ARPANET have pseudo-domain
names. That is, they list themselves as site.ARPA rather than using a
full domain name. Unfortunately, some of the gateways no longer
accept names of that format.
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				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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