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From: stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: How do I get to domain .ac?
Message-ID: <296@dcl-csvax.comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 13-Mar-87 17:06:13 EST
Article-I.D.: dcl-csva.296
Posted: Fri Mar 13 17:06:13 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 16-Mar-87 04:08:20 EST
References: <426@umnd-cs-gw.umnd-cs.D.UMN.EDU> <327@its63b.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir)
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.
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Keywords: JANET uk gateway

In article <327@its63b.ed.ac.uk> bct@ecsvax.ed.ac.uk (B Tompsett) writes:
>2. This appears to be a JANET host not an APRA host; therefore the route is:
>     user%multics.bham.ac.uk@cs.ucl.ac.uk
>   and likewise for all JANET hosts from ARPA.

Not quite.  UCL have taken the trouble to register all NRS registered JANET/PSS
hosts in the ARPANET tables as MX records (the equivalent of application relays
in the NRS) pointing to cs.ucl.ac.uk.  Thus, all NRS registered hosts should
appear as if they are directly connected to the ARPANET!  Although, at the end
of the day, the route is still through UCL, this should be transparent to the
user.

Effectively, "uk" is an ARPANET domain.
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