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In article <1992Aug25.073622.26502@cs.su.oz.au> piers@cs.su.oz.au (Piers Lauder) writes:
>MHSnet does `address completion'. This means that normally one doesn't
>have to use those domains that are common to source and destination.
>
>Unfortunately, this has a side effect that domains that are valid
>at a higher level, but that are missing from the routing tables, will
>also get `completed', as in the US toplevel addresses that match
>Australian PRMDs. Of course this won't happen for `typed' domains,
>such as "COUNTRY=gov", only for untyped `internet' style addresses.
>
>Eg: "edu.au" is a valid region in Australia, so MHSnet by default will
>append "au" to any address ending in "edu", assuming you meant the PRMD,
>not the `COUNTRY'.
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Does this explain (and fix ?) the following problem. Note the problem is 2
weeks old where a SUN-III fetchfile via basser gets a ".au" appended.

Greg OConnell

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>From daemon@basser.cs.su.oz Thu Aug 13 10:27:05 1992
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 10:53:51 +1000
From: postmaster@cs.su.oz.au (MHSnet Gateway to Internet FTP)
To: dbartel
Subject: FTP Request failed at basser.cs.su.oz.au
Status: R

Your request was:

	get			<msdos/Games/Demos/eob2demo.exe>
	internet_address	<ftp.ulowell.edu.au>
	FTP_server		<basser.cs.su.oz.au>

Below is the standard error output of the ftp command:

ftp.ulowell.edu.au: unknown host    <<<<This is the relevent bit. ".au" appended
Not connected.
Not connected.
Not connected.
No output from "get msdos/Games/Demos/eob2demo.exe"