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From: bct@its63b.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: How do I get to domain .ac?
Message-ID: <329@its63b.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 16-Mar-87 05:45:52 EST
Article-I.D.: its63b.329
Posted: Mon Mar 16 05:45:52 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 18-Mar-87 02:44:20 EST
References: <426@umnd-cs-gw.umnd-cs.D.UMN.EDU> <327@its63b.ed.ac.uk> <296@dcl-csvax.comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Reply-To: bct@ecsvax.ed.ac.uk (B Tompsett)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, U.K.
Lines: 24
Keywords: JANET uk gateway MILNET ARPA
Summary: How recently? MILNET also?

In article <296@dcl-csvax.comp.lancs.ac.uk> stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir) writes:
>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!
> .....
>Effectively, "uk" is an ARPANET domain.

  Is this a recent event? My posting was based on trying to mail the UK from
MILNET sometime towards the end of last year (in some earlier incarnation of
myself). I too tried using smart mailers and interrogating network databases
to no avail. Using ucl-cs was a shot in the dark which worked! I must assume
that either this is a recent feature, or the host name records have not
reached MILNET.
 Can anyone clarify?    Brian.

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