stern@bnl.UUCP (Eric Stern) (12/23/83)
Is there a consistent method of specifying addresses of people and machines on a network other than that of the sender? I've heard that you need a name, host, and domain. Can someone define these? In particular how would I specify an ARPANET address from UUCP and vice-versa? How about BITNET? Thanks in advance, Eric Stern (I don't know where I am)
ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) (12/27/83)
The internet addressing scheme proposes addresses looking like domain-specific-string @ domain The standard permits domains to have subdomains separated by dots, which permits domain names like hou3c.att.uucp This means that hou3c is a subdomain of att, which is a subdomain of uucp. This is a nice naming scheme except that 1) the only official domain is "arpa", and 2) many machines don't understand it anyway. Ucbvax does understand it, and it accepts bitnet as a domain, so you can send mail to machines on the BITNET by mailing to "...!ucbvax!user@machine.bitnet". Kenneth Almquist