gphg1125@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Glenn P Hoetker) (11/19/89)
I would be very grateful for any advice on how to send e-mail from the U. S. (either Internet or Bitnet) to someone on the JANET network in the U.K. I know its possible, but have incredible amounts of trouble trying to do it. Thank you very much.
macy@fmsystm.UUCP (Macy Hallock) (11/21/89)
In article <telecom-v09i0521m05@vector.dallas.tx.us> gphg1125@uxa.cso.uiuc. edu (Glenn P Hoetker) writes: >X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 521, message 5 of 10 >I would be very grateful for any advice on how to send e-mail from the >U. S. (either Internet or Bitnet) to someone on the JANET network in >the U.K. I know its possible, but have incredible amounts of trouble >trying to do it. Thank you very much. One source for network routing information I have not yet seen mentioned is Nutshell's new book on the topic. I won't get commercial here, but if this book is as good as the others from this publisher, it's worthwhile. They have an 800 number or try uunet!ora!sales (they also publish several other good books on Unix and Usenet related topics) Macy M. Hallock, Jr. macy@NCoast.ORG uunet!aablue!fmsystm!macy F M Systems, Inc. {uunet!backbone}!cwjcc.cwru.edu!ncoast!fmsystm!macy 150 Highland Drive Voice: +1 216 723-3000 Ext 251 Fax: +1 216 723-3223 Medina, Ohio 44256 USA Cleveland:273-3000 Akron:239-4994 (Dial 251 at tone)
OLE@csli.stanford.edu (Ole J. Jacobsen) (11/21/89)
JANET is connected to the Internet via a gateway which used to be at the University College London (UCL), but is now at a different location in London (ULCC, I think). The name of the gateway host is still NSS.CS.UCL.AC.UK. Your mailer should be smart enough to recognise addresses of the form: user@someplace.ac.uk. Please note that the domain ordering is "backwards" (they think it is "the right way round" and there are arguments which support their claim, but let's not get into that...). You may therefore be given addresses of the form: user@uk.ac.someplace and you'll have to reverse it before composing your message. Good luck! Ole
pkh%computer-science.nottingham.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk (Kevin Hopkins) (11/22/89)
In his message of Mon 20 Nov 89 19:53:51-PST in v09i525 "Ole J. Jacobsen" <OLE@csli.stanford.edu> mentioned: > JANET is connected to the Internet via a gateway which used to be at > the University College London (UCL), but is now at a different > location in London (ULCC, I think). The name of the gateway host is > still NSS.CS.UCL.AC.UK. The location is correct but the name isn't. You should use nsfnet-relay.ac.uk. The old name of nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk *may* still be left around as an alias, but as the name changed about a year ago I doubt it will be around for much longer, if it still exists at all. Also, you will only be able to get mail to the AC.UK subdomain through that gateway due to the way the Computer Board (government agency) funds it. For the rest of the UK (and AC.UK if you want) its down to bang addresses of the form ..!mcsun!ukc!nott-cs!K.Hopkins, and this route is charged to the UK user on send and receive. +--------------------------------------------+--------------------------------+ | K.Hopkins%cs.nott.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk | Kevin Hopkins, | | or ..!mcsun!ukc!nott-cs!K.Hopkins | Department of Computer Science,| | or in the UK: K.Hopkins@uk.ac.nott.cs | University of Nottingham, | | CHAT-LINE: +44 602 484848 x 3815 | Nottingham, ENGLAND, NG7 2RD | +--------------------------------------------+--------------------------------+