James Mckenzie wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

 MB> Either FTP.WATCOM.ON.CA or FTP.WATCOM.COM; the company seems
 MB> undecided.

 JM> No, this is a standard naming convention.  I am in Korea,
 JM> all US sites require adding .us to the end. 
 JM> ftp-os2.nmsu.edu becomes ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.us. 

You have a problem, then.  This is the OS/2 Programming echo, so I don't
want to get into this in detail, but Internet domains are strictly global. 
There is a "US" domain just like there is a "KR"
domain, but it is entirely disjoint from the "EDU" domain.  The
Internet domain name service is hierarchical, with the top-level name
servers on the Internet having authority over the root domain "."
and then delegating authority for successive subdomains.

Your machine may have local pseudo-domains, such as "UUCP" or
"BITNET," but those are significant only within your machine. 
Your system administrator could have decided to set up "US" in a
similar way, but that would be a fairly serious mistake because you would
then be unable to reach the real "US" domain.

If you want to pursue this further, either send Fidonet netmail or Internet
e-mail to mikebw{at}ids.net.
 
-- Mike


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