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From: lamy@ai.toronto.edu (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Subject: Re: problem with an address in norway
Message-ID: <1988Jan22.100921.15847@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto, AI group
Date: Fri, 22-Jan-88 10:09:20 EST

In article <1427@uhccux.UUCP> todd@uhccux.UUCP (The Perplexed Wiz) writes:
>Can someone tell me what kind of address (i.e., what network) something
>that looks like
>
>	s_helmersen%use.uio.uninett@tor.uta.no
>

"no" is a *domain* (Norway), and as such, can contain machines from many
networks (just like .com contains machines not on the Internet).  Indeed,
tor.uta.no is the name of the gateway to the old uninett, a X.400 network
(X.400 is a ISO standard).  One would expect that after the transition is
complete something like user@use.uio.no would work directly.

Meanwhile, you can try adding a second gateway explicitly, as follows

s_helmersen%use.uio.uninett%tor.uta.no@relay.cs.net

Assuming that relay.cs.net indeed relays mail to "no" -- can't check easily,
as we have a direct X.400 link, but am pretty sure it does -- the address you
gave should have worked from an ARPA site running a name server.  relay.cs.net
would have responded to a query from your name server. This may be a case of
"update your software".  A sure test is for you to try to reply to me.  If
you can't reach ai.toronto.edu without pasting a @relay.cs.net, you are out
of date...

Jean-Francois Lamy
AI Group, Department of Computer Science           lamy@ai.toronto.edu
University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4              uunet!ai.toronto.edu!lamy