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- From: spexet@engin.umich.edu (Dennis Robert Spexet)
- Subject: Re: Pleasure.com mystery solved.
- Message-ID: <xKV-d9#@engin.umich.edu>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 18:51:07 EDT
- Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
- References: <1992Jul27.135126.1626@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu> <1992Jul28.203324.15206@uwm.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul28.203324.15206@uwm.edu> jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes:
- >From article <1992Jul27.135126.1626@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>, by greenie@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu:
- >
- >>to it. But since it was a test and not expected to remain online forever,
- >>we did not bother registering the domain name - and we were under no obligation
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >>to do so because it was through the commercial Internet and therefor not
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >>under the auspices of the NIC and the NSF.
- >
- >
- > 2. Assuming you really _have_ no obligation to register a temporary
- > domain name with "The NIC", how do you prevent collisions in the
- > domain name-space? It would seem that there has to be _some_
- > central clearinghouse to prevent such collisions.
- > 'lends' one of its _own_ IP addresses to this new entity.)
-
- It is especially odd in light of what the advertising from UUNet and PSInet
- (two major commercial network service providers) says. According to their
- promotional literature, one service that they will provide to anyone that
- buys their Internet connection from them is domain registration at
- the DDN Network Information Center. Specifically, said literature states
- that entries for any particular domain name will be registered at nic.ddn.mil.
-
- Here is a question that, paradoxically, may help to clear this up: Were
- domain names to be used for connecting to the host in this test? Specifically,
- was it intended for users to telnet to "pleasure.com" (or whatever it was,)
- or were they intended to telnet to xxx.yyy.zzz.www, a numbered IP address? I
- recall reading about this service in alt.sex, I think. I believe that testers
- were asked to telnet to a numbered address, rather than to a named address.
-
- If this was indeed the case, then the lack of domain name registration would
- make some sense, since it would not be intended for users to telnet to
- "pleasure.com". "pleasure.com" would simply be a convenient name to use
- during the test -- especially if there were only one host in the "domain".
-
- >Or am I missing something very obvious in what transpired here?
-
- I must be missing something too.
-
- >Confused and puzzled by the situation,
-
- So am I.
-
- >--
- >John G Dobnick ATTnet: (414) 229-5727
- >Computing Services Division INTERNET: jgd@uwm.edu
- >University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee UUCP: uunet!uwm!jgd
- >
- >"Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation,
- >and is thus a source of civilized delight." -- William Safire
-
-
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