david@elroy.UUCP (David Robinson) (09/12/86)
I like domains but I have a complaint about the fact that they are so ARPANET dependant. I would like to call this machine elroy.jpl.nasa.gov and be able to get mail BUT we are not on the ARPANET but we are government, nasa, jpl, and named elroy like the name implies but we must use elroy.uucp. The domains fail on machines that are not on fully connected networks. There should be some better way of dealing with those machines. -- David Robinson elroy!david@csvax.caltech.edu ARPA seismo-------!cit-vax!elroy!david UUCP ihnp4!cithep/ Disclaimer: No one listens to me anyway!
jordan@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Jordan Hayes) (09/12/86)
[ disclaimer: I wear a number of hats ... here comes my NASA hat ]
David Robinson <david@elroy.UUCP> writes:
I like domains but I have a complaint about the fact that they
are so ARPANET dependant. I would like to call this machine
elroy.jpl.nasa.gov and be able to get mail BUT we are not on
the ARPANET but we are government, nasa, jpl, and named elroy
like the name implies but we must use elroy.uucp.
Well, you certainly can have that name. About a year ago,
we (at NASA Ames Research Center) snagged the nasa.gov domain, and
are administering the namespace. However, recently there have been
some political problems dealing with the issue of certain individuals
who have claimed that, among other things, the MILNET has had "no
written directive" to convert to the domain name system. I won't
go into the details right here and now, but I'm trying to get some
"official" word on the subject. In the mean time, you should drop
me a note about what's going on down at JPL, and we can talk
about namespace.
Moral of the story: domains are NOT just for Internet aymore ... :-)
/jordan
Or:
Jordan Hayes, Bendix Field Engineering, NASA Ames Research Center
jordan@ames.arpa ... {seismo,cit-vax,harvard}!nike!jordan