Xref: utzoo soc.net-people:571 comp.mail.misc:797
Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!dpz
From: dpz@athos.rutgers.edu (David P. Zimmerman)
Newsgroups: soc.net-people,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: problem with an address in norway
Message-ID: <560@athos.rutgers.edu>
Date: 12 Jan 88 13:46:49 GMT
References: <1427@uhccux.UUCP>
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
Lines: 23
Keywords: what kind of address is this?

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
> 
> is?

Well, I can verify that it certainly is an Internet site.  tor.uta.no
has the address 128.39.1.2, which showed up in the headers thus:

> Received: from [128.39.1.2] by bass.nosc.mil (5.58/1.27)

What is interesting is that bass.nosc.mil didn't know the name.  In
fact, neither did we, and a normal name lookup on it failed.  However,
a reverse lookup on 128.39.1.2 worked, and got the name into our
lookup cache.  The next time I looked up the name, I got the address
back immediately, as would be expected.

						dpz
-- 
Internet: dpz@rutgers.edu   UUCP: rutgers!dpz   Bitnet: zimmerman@zodiac