[ih] bang paths, was Domain Names

[cos at aaaaa.org (Ofer Inbar)]

Scott Brim <sbrim at cisco.com> wrote:
> Dave CROCKER allegedly wrote on 01/20/2010 17:55 EST:
> > As I recall, Bitnet was a dotted sequence of hostnames, but I don't
> > remember whether it had global hostnaming or was route-based.
> 
> I don't recall us doing more than just simple host names, e.g.
> "swb at CORNELLA".  Hierarchy might have been added later when it was
> running over IP?

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.
  -- Cos