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- From: hammond_g@drkclu.meng.ucl.ac.uk (G. Ruth Hammond)
- Subject: Re: Internet Problem!
- Sender: news@ucl.ac.uk (Usenet News System)
- Message-ID: <1996Jan9.152129.41317@ucl.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 15:21:29 GMT
- Reply-To: hammond_g@drkclu.meng.ucl.ac.uk (G. Ruth Hammond)
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- Organization: UCL Dept Mech Eng
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- In article <4cqlql$cli@news.ust.hk>, ch_lsw@stu.ust.hk (Lee Sai Wai) writes:
- |>Dear sir,
- |>
- |> I am surprised in a internet problem , can anyone tell me?
- |>
- |> Problem:
- |>
- |> If there is a site, say,abcd.com. Then I telnet to this site by
- |> typing "telnet abcd.com", it appear "host is unreachable". However,
- |> If I send email to this site, the mail can arrive this site.
- |>
- |> Can anyone tell me why?
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- the abcd.com will be a mail address, for example email sent to ucl.ac.uk
- will go to any of mail-a.bcc.ac.uk to mail-e.bcc.ac.uk, or mail to
- meng.ucl.ac.uk will actually go to silva.meng.ucl.ac.uk or phobia. If you
- want to telnet, you'll need the address of a specific machine or cluster.
-
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- * Guy Ruth Hammond - Fast Cars, Fast Women and Fast Fourier Transforms *
- * Undergraduate at University College London, Mechanical Engineering *
- * hammond_g@drkclu.meng.ucl.ac.uk | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~zcemm23/ *
- * Clear the DECs, it's time for action! *
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