[ih] bang paths, was Domain Names

Dave Crocker dcrocker at gmail.com
Thu Jan 21 14:13:01 PST 2010



On 1/21/2010 1:51 PM, Ofer Inbar wrote:
> When Brandeis dropped BITNET in the early 90s, it was still @BRANDEIS,
> and I don't remember ever seeing dotted sequences for BITNET hosts.
> I do remember using hacks like @sitename.bitnet on non-BITNET sendmail
> hosts that were configured to rewrite those to go to the appropriate
> gateways.

Hmmm.  I'm starting to suspect that what I remember was merely the form 
brandeis.bitnet

d/

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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net



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