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Grex Info Item 199: Anyone know Grex's numerical e-mail address?
Entered by chi1taxi on Tue Jan 17 01:05:48 UTC 1995:

I've been trying unsuccessfully to reach someone by e-mail.  I'm going to
try to get  a message to them via an intermediary.  In case their sysstem has
as much trouble finding Grex as I've had reaching them, I want to send him 
Grex's numerical e-mail address.  Does anyone know this numberical address 
for Grex?

18 responses total.

#1 of 18 by scg on Tue Jan 17 02:51:59 1995:

152.160.30.1

#2 of 18 by popcorn on Tue Jan 17 03:11:26 1995:

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#3 of 18 by mdw on Tue Jan 17 11:20:36 1995:

Mail with a numeric address *might* work.  It's in the standard.  But
until recently, few mailers actually supported it.  So it's very iffy.
One thing to keep in mind is, those numeric addresses aren't as likely
to be long lived as the host name.  It's quite possible grex could have
a different IP address a year or so from now - or that mail might be
handled with a different yet IP address.  The english name.domain string
is much more likely to keep on working.

#4 of 18 by chi1taxi on Tue Jan 17 23:54:43 1995:

The only reason I want to use numerical is that the english name.domain 
couldn't rea the destination for two diff. addresses in Canada (ending in
.CA).  From my understanding different mail handlers have different english
name lists, and they're incomplete.  Supposedly the numerical addresses are
absolute and not in need of interpretation, therefore dead-sure.  I could see
how they could be in a way relative and changable, but my need is only 
temporary.

#5 of 18 by brenda on Mon Jan 23 03:44:39 1995:

Another way to find the numeric address of anywhere is 
nsquery (name@address)

It should output the numeric equivalent.

#6 of 18 by popcorn on Mon Jan 23 13:52:52 1995:

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#7 of 18 by rcurl on Mon Jan 23 16:52:45 1995:

Query? cyberspace.org
        cyberspace.org
        internet address is 152.160.30.1

#8 of 18 by popcorn on Thu Jan 26 05:25:13 1995:

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#9 of 18 by rcurl on Thu Jan 26 06:32:29 1995:

Query? is the um-dns host prompt. Enter um-dns at the Which Host?
prompt on MichNet (which you can get by telnetting to hermes.merit.edu
or dialing up a MichNet SCP).

#10 of 18 by scg on Fri Jan 27 04:00:14 1995:

You can also telnet to runningman.rs.itd.umich.edu on port 5432.

#11 of 18 by mdw on Fri Mar 3 23:05:42 1995:

Yet another way is to run "nslookup" right here on grex, then
just type the host name in at the ">" prompt.

#12 of 18 by tsty on Sat Mar 4 10:04:26 1995:

is the database here, or will nslookup go offsite as needed?

#13 of 18 by popcorn on Sat Mar 4 14:25:03 1995:

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#14 of 18 by mdw on Sat Mar 4 18:45:17 1995:

DNS is distributed.  It's everywhere, and nowhere.

#15 of 18 by scg on Sat Mar 4 22:55:12 1995:

Cool!  It works on my Linux box too.

#16 of 18 by remmers on Mon Mar 6 13:04:17 1995:

Re #114: Though if it uses tcp, I presume it works for members only.

#17 of 18 by remmers on Mon Mar 6 13:04:36 1995:

(Make that #14, not #114.)

#18 of 18 by tsty on Fri Mar 10 08:28:39 1995:

thankxx mdw, confirmed my thought.

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