Re: JANET troubles

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From: Ben Cranston
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1987 17:27

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In article <572@stracs.cs.strath.ac.uk> jim@cs.strath.ac.uk writes:

> The address you give is a little curious. You are asking for the mail to
> be sent to "ac.uk" from your local machine. Where will your mail system
> send this (if anywhere)? If it goes to the RAL gateway - called UKACRL
> on BITNET/EARN - it should get through OK.

The semistandard BitNet domain route table has "ac.uk" pointed to ukacrl.
This makes life somewhat difficult for those of us who try to provide
both the Internet and BitNet addressing domains...

> Firstly the address is in UK domain order... 

The UKACRL router does not seem to reverse the domain order, unlike the
other two gateways, thus presentation in UK order seems correct here...
-- 
                    umd5.UUCP    <= {seismo!mimsy,ihnp4!rlgvax}!cvl!umd5!zben
Ben Cranston zben @ umd2.UMD.EDU    Kingdom of Merryland UniSys 1100/92
                    umd2.BITNET     "via HASP with RSCS"

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References: <701@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <572@stracs.cs.strath.ac.uk>

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!brl-adm!umd5!zben
From: zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: JANET troubles
Message-ID: <1571@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: Sat, 25-Apr-87 13:27:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: umd5.1571
Posted: Sat Apr 25 13:27:53 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 26-Apr-87 20:48:58 EDT
References: <701@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <572@stracs.cs.strath.ac.uk>
Reply-To: zben@umd5.umd.edu.UUCP (Ben Cranston)
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Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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Keywords: JANET, UK, gateways, help!
Summary: More info about AC.UK (UKACRL)

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