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From: reid@decwrl.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: unlisted domains
Message-ID: <8193@decwrl.DEC.COM>
Date: Sat, 21-Feb-87 02:40:20 EST
Article-I.D.: decwrl.8193
Posted: Sat Feb 21 02:40:20 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Feb-87 17:26:26 EST
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Reply-To: reid@decwrl.UUCP (Brian Reid)
Organization: DEC Western Research
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 >A users at my site came to me with an address that he could not get
 >to.  The address contained ....!hamlet.stanford.edu!f.flex .  I
 >started looking around in the map files and discovered that
 >.stanford.edu as well as .berkeley.edu are not listed in the map files
 >(and thus my pathalias software routes all of their addresses to
 >seismo since that is my closest .edu site).  Can anyone tell me what
 >the deal is?

The deal is that ".stanford.edu" is a real live ARPAnet domain, accessed
through ARPAnet domain name servers. The map files are not an official list
of anything; they are for the convenience of people who do not have access to
ARPAnet domain servers. Most ARPAnauts don't even know that uucp exists.
Routing that mail to seismo (or any other ARPAnet site) should work.