Re: Janet addresses

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From: Craig E. Ward
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1991 21:41

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In article <6350@husc6.harvard.edu> wm@pitirim.harvard.edu (William J. Mahoney) writes:
>We are an Internet site with access to Bitnet and UUCP. I am trying
>to reach someone on the Janet network.  The address that I have been given
>is "ak106%phx@cam.eng-jcf.janet".  Mail to this address bounces. Anyone
>have any ideas?  

JANET is the UK part of the Internet.  (They do their domain names backwards,
but computers don't care....)  I queried the database with "cam.eng-jcf.uk"
and found nothing.

From the NIC:
University College London (UK-DOM)
   Department of Computer Science
   London
   ENGLAND

   Domain Name: UK

   Administrative Contact:
      Kirstein, Peter T.  (PK)  KIRSTEIN@CS.UCL.AC.UK
      +44 1 380 7286
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Andrews, John  (JA168)  ja@ESS.CS.UCL.AC.UK
      +44 1 387 7050 ext 3691

   Record last updated on 25-Feb-91.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   NS1.CS.UCL.AC.UK		128.16.5.32
   AOS.BRL.MIL			192.5.25.82
   MHS-RELAY.AC.UK		128.86.8.25
   MCSUN.EU.NET			192.16.202.1

   Top Level domain for the United Kingdom of Great Britain

   There are 2 known sub-domains:

   AC.UK	    University College London
   MOD.UK	    ?

To single out one record, look it up with "!xxx", where xxx is the
handle, shown in parenthesis following the name, which comes first.
-- 
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From: cew@isi.edu (Craig E. Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Janet addresses
Summary: JANET is the UK network.
Message-ID: <17542@venera.isi.edu>
Date: 11 Apr 91 21:41:20 GMT
References: <6350@husc6.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: cew@venera.isi.edu (Craig E. Ward)
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