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- Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!news.service.uci.edu!unogate!mvb.saic.com!tgv.com!info-multinet
- Date: 20 NOV 92 21:05:35 GMT
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
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- X-RFC822-From: adelman (Kenneth Adelman) @ TGV.COM
- From: adelman@TGV.COM
- Subject: Re: Unnecessary host routing in addresses resent by this list
- Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community
- Message-ID: <36A00FB320NOV92210535@TGV.COM>
- Nntp-Posting-Host: Mvb.Saic.Com
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- > I've noticed a strange (well, perhaps not:-) phenomenon about the headers of
- > mail resent by this list. Please excuse the appearance within what follows of
- > addresses given in the UK's "big-endian" format: the Internet-Janet relay,
- > nsfnet-relay.ac.uk performs this reversal on all entities that it recognizes as
- > possibly forming the name of a host, and it's too much effort for me to
- > [attempt to] re-reverse them into what I conjecture would have been their
- > original format.
-
- > Anyway, the phenomenon is that mail from some senders, in particular [I think],
- > those outside the "original" Internet (com, gov, mil, edu, etc.) gain a
- > source-routing address such that any reply would be sent through tgv.com. Here
- > is an example coming from the University of Turku, Finland:
-
- Someone want to remind me about where I can find a list of current
- top-leval domains so I can update my list? I've added .FI to the list, so
- the rewriting on those addresses should stop.
-
- Ken
-