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- From: tinker@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Robert Tinker)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
- Subject: Re: navy.mil gone?
- Message-ID: <23928@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 13:32:21 GMT
- References: <1992Aug18.143937.24042@ncar.ucar.edu>
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- Organization: Carderock Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center
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- In article <1992Aug18.143937.24042@ncar.ucar.edu> woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods) writes:
- >Does anyone know what happened to the navy.mil domain? Even the root
- >servers no longer seem to have any information about it. Naturally
- >this means all mail sent to hosts within the Navy is bouncing with
- >a host unknown error.
- >
- >--Greg
-
- I think "navy.mil" is only a placeholder in the root servers, i.e
- there are no global navy.mil nameservers. These exist one level down.
- For example, my domain is dt.navy.mil, and if you query the root for
- that, you will find "glue" nameserver records pointing to that domain.
- Hence looking up, for example, oasys.dt.navy.mil from the root should
- lead to my nameserver and to successful name-to-address resolution.
-
- Regards,
- Bob Tinker (tinker@oasys.dt.navy.mil)
-