bob@agora.UUCP (Robert Lucas) (09/07/88)
Recently, I attempted to respond to a news article via E-mail (using the response option) to a site named 'optilink' (foo@ optilink). I received the following bizarre mailer error: From tessi!uucp Sat Sep 3 05:22:57 1988 Received: by agora.hf.intel.COM (smail2.3) id AA04651; 3 Sep 88 05:22:49 PDT (Sat) Received: by tessi; Sat, 3 Sep 88 05:05:04 PDT Received: by tektronix.TEK.COM (5.51/6.24) id AA01350; Sat, 3 Sep 88 04:12:39 PDT Received: from relay.cs.net by RELAY.CS.NET id ae13455; 3 Sep 88 6:02 EDT Received: from ucbvax.berkeley.edu by RELAY.CS.NET id aa29349; 3 Sep 88 6:11 EDT Received: from RELAY.CS.NET by ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (5.59/1.31) id AA02664; Sat, 3 Sep 88 03:00:20 PDT Date: Sat, 3 Sep 88 03:00:20 PDT From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <tektronix!ucbvax.berkeley.edu!MAILER-DAEMON> Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown Message-Id: <8809031000.AA02664@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> To: < Mmdf-Warning: Parse error in original version of preceding line at RELAY.CS.NET ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 550 <optilink.UUCP!cramer@UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU>... Host unknown ----- Unsent message follows ----- . . . My questions are (1) Why did the mail get as far as ucbvax if the address is incorrect. (2) How did the address get as hashed as it seems to be? (3) Does anyone have a valid path for optilink (the routing tables for the system I am on do not list it explicitly). Thanks in advance for any help in this matter. Bob Lucas ============================================================================= | bob@agora | Knowledge is the key, but | | ...tektronix!tessi!agora!bob | you must first find the lock. | =============================================================================