Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!rochester!bbn!denbeste
From: denbeste@bbn.COM (Steven Den Beste)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: ssyx.ucsc.edu Doesn't Exist On The Arpanet
Message-ID: <5812@cc5.bbn.COM>
Date: 7 Jan 88 19:28:38 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc., Cambridge, MA
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I, too, tried to get the Killer Demos from ssyx.ucsc.edu when that article
was posted, and I, too, failed.

So I walked over to the ARPAnet Network Operations Center (about 100 feet from
my office here at BBN, which runs the ARPAnet for the government on contract)
and asked them.

There is no site named ssyx.ucsc.edu on the ARPAnet.

The INTERNet hasn't heard of it.

The numeric network address given is not an ARPAnet address, it is an internet
domain, but the INTERNet doesn't recognize IT, either.

If you've been trying to get to it from ARPAnet, give up. You can't.

...or so I was told, and I think the network controllers know whereof they
speak. They actually queried the network name server's database from its
console terminal, using a program that mere mortals cannot access.



Apparently what is going on is that the machine in question is a local machine
on a local net at a university, and the person who made the original posting
(who has, by the way, not answered my mail) didn't know that it wasn't truly
linked into the ARPAnet. Apparently, they can call out, but the system name
server hasn't been informed of their existence - so none of US can call IN.


I certainly wish the person would answer my mail.

-- 
Steven C. Den Beste,   Bolt Beranek & Newman, Cambridge MA
denbeste@bbn.com(ARPA/CSNET/UUCP)    harvard!bbn.com!denbeste(UUCP)