🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Aug01.150232.5221@anomaly.sbs.risc.net> kd1hz@anomaly.sbs.risc.net (Michael P. Deignan (KD1HZ)) writes:
>sean@sdg.dra.com writes:
>
>>Registering under/using the COM domain has nothing to do with using a
>>commercial network provider on the Internet.
>
>You assume the site wishes to interact with other Internet hosts as a
>".COM" domain. Here on my network, I could call a machine "shit.com", which
>is completely IP-addressable from anywhere on the Internet, and its really
>none of your business.
>
     Sure, *you* could call it that and so could other people on that
machine (or others you administer.)  However, as Barry Margolin explained,
nobody *else* could call it that.  The name servers wouldn't know about it.
     So.  In an attempt to rerail the discussion, I will ask the question,
"how did anyone access the so-called 'pleasure.com' system?  By IP address
only?"


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
                                  Systems Programming
                                  Computer Center
                                  Northern Illinois University
                                  DeKalb, Illinois 60115
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