pozar@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Pozar) (06/04/89)
In article <107917@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> plocher@sun.UUCP (John Plocher) writes: > > The first (121.45.33/123) is the "name" of a fidonet node. > This is the name by which other Fidonet nodes identify each > other. But, the syntax [0-9]*.[0-9]* is explicitly dissallowed > by the domain naming RFCs. > > -John Plocher Uh, how did FidoNet get brought up here? And your description of FidoNet addressing is not quite right. FidoNet addressing looks like this: 1:125/555.0 The 1 is the zone number. The zone is ussually a large geographical area. Zone 1 is North America, Zone 2 is Europe, ect. The 125 is a net number. The net is a smaller area like city or part of state or local geographical area. Net 125 is the north-west portion of the San Francisco Bay area. The 555 is the node number. The node number is a machine that is listed in the FidoNet nodelist. The 0 is a point number. The point is a machine that is a leaf site that is not reachable by other FidoNet machines except by the "Boss Node" that the point talks to. The Boss Node is indicated by having a zero in its address. If I was a point and talked to my Boss that had an address of 1:125/555.0, my number my be 1:125/555.1. By the way, 0 (zero) is a magic number. It ussualy indicates the mail host of the "domain". 1:125/0.0 would indicate the net host. The ':', '/', and '.' are special chars that denote different parts of the address. Now addressing FidoNet from Internet or UUCP is another matter. If anyone wants info on that, drop me a line. Tim -- ...sun!hoptoad!\ Tim Pozar >fidogate!pozar Fido: 1:125/406 ...lll-winken!/ PaBell: (415) 788-3904 USNail: KKSF / 77 Maiden Lane / San Francisco CA 94108