thor@thor.atd.ucar.edu (Richard Neitzel) (10/05/90)
Please be aware of the following problem effecting return email addresses of requests sent to the archive server. All systems at NCAR use the Domain Name Service (DNS). This allows us to find the name/IP addr. of most systems connected to the Internet. However, this means that in order to get your mail returned to the proper place, you must be certain that your return address uses the fully qualified host name. For example, my base system is thor.atd.ucar.edu, not thor. As an example of what will occur if you send unqualified names, the server recently got 2 requests from: bd@tiros Unfortunately, since this is an unqualified name, it ended up being mailed to: bd@tiros.atd.ucar.edu As a result the mail bounced and bd@tiros is probably wondering why the requests were never serviced. Please check the output of your mailer and make certain that fully qualified names are output! -- Richard Neitzel thor@thor.atd.ucar.edu Torren med sitt skjegg National Center For Atmospheric Research lokkar borni under sole-vegg Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307-3000 Gjo'i med sitt shinn 303-497-2057 jagar borni inn.