ramani@CS.Stanford.EDU (Ramani Pichumani) (01/24/91)
Thanks to all who replied to my query on how to send mail to ajo'brien at hp6650/26. What worked for me was the following: a_j_o'brien@hp6650.desk.hp.com Apparently the "/26" is not needed anymore - the HP mail relay apparently resolves it. Also, if I were to type the address from the shell (which I didn't), I would have needed to escape the quote: a_j_o\'brien@hp6650.desk.hp.com Interestingly enough, when I received a reply from him, his return address was listed as: a_j_o_brien%26@hp6650.desk.hp.com Notice that the quote has been changed to an underscore and the 26 has been restored. For the sake of completeness, I was told that my address from the perspective of HP Desk is as follows: ramani@patience.stanford.edu /HPUNIX/UX Although, in his reply message, it was simply: ramani@patience.stanford.edu I guess the HP Desk system must recognize Internet addresses although I wouldn't stake my life on it. I guess someone out there must understand how all these mailers work. Most of us are just grateful that they do! Ramani Pichumani Tel: (415) 723-2902 or 723-2437 Department of Computer Science Fax: (415) 725-7411 Margaret Jacks Hall, Room 308 email: ramani@patience.stanford.edu Stanford, CA 94305 USA uunet!patience.stanford.edu!ramani
rjn@hpfcso.HP.COM (Bob Niland) (01/25/91)
re: > What's SLIP ???????
Serial Line Internet Protocol
Allows TCP/IP services thru an RS-232C port. It will reportedly be avaiable
in 8.0 and an unsupported version is informally available for 7.0. I
suspect that a buffered port is needed, such as 98638A 8mux, 98642A 4mux
(port 0), 98628A, 345/375/400 built-in; but not 98626A, 98644A or other 300
built-ins.
Regards, Hewlett-Packard
Bob Niland Internet: rjn@FC.HP.COM 3404 East Harmony Road
UUCP: [hplabs|hpfcse]!hpfcrjn!rjn Ft Collins CO 80525-9599garys@hpfcso.HP.COM (Gary Stringham) (02/11/91)
/ hpfcso:comp.sys.hp / garys@hpfcso.HP.COM (Gary Stringham) / 12:04 pm Jan 22, 1991 / > grep '^15' /etc/hosts | sort | uniq | wc > There are over 39,000 (thirty-nine *thousand*) hosts. However, > some of these are PC's connected to the lan. Not all of HP's machines are listed in the /etc/hosts file. We have some that we use in manufacturing that we have not put in /etc/hosts for one reason or another but are accessable by a few machines that do know about them. Gary "telnet to hpa, then to hpb, then to hpc for the data." Stringham ---------- DISCLAIMER! I don't know how this got posted under my name in this notes string. The date on it is Jan 22, when I posted this elsewhere. So it was not me who did this. Gary "Must the notes goblins." Stringham
graham@hparc0.HP.COM (Graham Eddy) (02/12/91)
#include <standard/disclaimer.h>
> Not all of HP's machines are listed in the /etc/hosts file.
very true. for example, of about 80 systems on my subnet, all defined
within our DNS domain, only 4 are registered externally in others'
/etc/hosts files. i strongly suggest 40,000 hosts on HP's internal IP
network is an understatement
-graham "yes, we DO know about BIG networks"