gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) (12/17/88)
In article <3029@arcturus> evil@arcturus.UUCP (Wade Guthrie) writes: >I am trying to find (I believe it is Doug) Gwyn at the following >address, but it gets bounced back to me (I have checked our maps >completely, but it is the only route I get): >sunkist!sun!gould!smoke!gwyn I'm responding publicly because there may be others who don't know how to do this. The message headers should have my net address. Unfortunately our news software seems to think gwyn@brl.arpa is appropriate, probably because there are so many system administrators who have failed to upgrade their systems to handle domain addressing properly. My preferred address is Gwyn@BRL.MIL Both of these are Internet addresses. Internet is a real network, unlike the USEnet kludge. Officially the Internet uses a "domain" naming system, so that host tables are unnecessary. In fact a lot of our mail software refuses to use host tables even when they would be of some help. If you don't know how to route mail to Internet sites, try passing it through a site that does, e.g. uunet. ...!uunet!Gwyn@BRL.MIL Gould's problem is worse than usual because some of their local systems have (or at least had) names that conflict with those the NIC had registered in its official host table. I seem to recall that "smoke" was one of these. ("Fire-breathers", you know.)