mp@allegra.UUCP (Mark Plotnick) (10/05/85)
Here's one of those interesting diversions that occur when most of the
nouns in the known universe can be preceded with "MIT-" or some other
prefix and yield the name of a computer:
(uw-eddie was on the internet long before mit-eddie, so it claimed the
nickname "eddie" in the NIC host table (which is fascinating reading,
by the way; check it out to see why both sites happened to choose the
name "eddie"))
From: jim@mit-athena (Jim Fulton)
Subject: For your enjoyment about mailer configurations.
Below is a copy of piece of mail that was sent to me. Ironically, it
managed to actually get to the right place. As far as I can figure, the
following happened:
1. a letter to me was addressed on MIT-XX to "jim@eddie" by mistake
(it should have been addressed to "fulton@mit-eddie" or
"jim@athena").
2. the mailer at MIT-XX parsed that into jim@uw-eddie.arpa
instead of jim@mit-eddie.arpa.
3. the person with the account "jim" at UW-EDDIE has his
mail forwarded to "jim@apollo".
4. the mailer at UW-EDDIE then parsed APOLLO into MIT-APOLLO
and sent the mail back to MIT.
5. I then managed to receive the mail through MIT-APOLLO and
everything worked out okay. I know that mailers don't always
take the most optimal route, but....
**** the mail message as I got it ****
>From MERLIN@mit-xx.arpa Mon Aug 26 14:10:42 1985
Received: from ATHENA (1003a12) by MIT-ZEUS (4.12/4.7)
id AA17327; Mon, 26 Aug 85 14:10:37 edt
Received: from MIT-APOLLO (MIT-APOLLO.MIT.EDU) by ATHENA (4.12/4.7)
id AA14668; Mon, 26 Aug 85 14:10:33 edt
Received: from uw-eddie.arpa (60805c0) by MIT-APOLLO (4.12/4.7)
id AA10686; Mon, 26 Aug 85 14:10:34 edt
Received: from MIT-XX.ARPA by uw-eddie.arpa (4.42/3.2D)
id AA13109; Mon, 26 Aug 85 11:11:53 PDT
Return-Path: <MERLIN@mit-xx.arpa>
Message-Id: <8508261811.AA13109@uw-eddie.arpa>
Date: Mon 26 Aug 85 14:09:13-EDT
From: James D. McNamara <MERLIN@mit-xx.arpa>
Subject: line busy
To: jim@uw-eddie.arpa
Cc: fulton@uw-eddie.arpa
message....
**** and then, the result of saying finger jim@uw-eddie.arpa ****
% finger jim@uw-eddie.arpa
[UW-EDDIE.ARPA]
*** Mail automatically forwarded to jim@apollo ***
executing a local finger:
Login name: jim In real life: Jim Rees
Office: 408 Sieg, x5-0912 Home phone: 523-9058
Directory: /u1/jim Shell: /bin/csh
Group: eden
Never logged in
No Plan.
[jim@mit-apollo.arpa]
... **** does a finger of jim@mit-apollo.arparees@apollo.uucp (Jim Rees) (10/14/85)
At one time, we had aliases on uw-eddie for all the users of mit-eddie. That way they still got their mail even if it was sent to our eddie (UW's, that is) by mistake. I wonder what other mail is going to the wrong place because of the conflict between the arpa apollo and the uucp apollo. So far I haven't seen any mail intended for Jim McNamara (the MIT jim@apollo). Another potential screw-up: My brother works for MIT. I'm apollo!rees, and he can probably get mail at rees@apollo.arpa.