Thanks, Andy. Nice to read hard facts on UC-list this evening.
Based on your experience, what sort of control do you think the Pope, or
the Franciscan Order, or Villanova Univ. exercises over the content of
this unmoderated UC-list, based on the mere fact of its mechanical
address? Suppose the list became moderated instead -- how would that
change the influence that Main Line Roman Catholicism now wields over
UC-list as we know it?
-- Tony West
Andrew Diller wrote:
If I may---- Actually, there is institutional affiliation: Villanova!
For some context, there are two things you need to know about any
computer on the Internet:
1. who hold the DNS records for that domain
2. where is the IP address of the server located? (what ISP?)
Only large institutions (penn, apple, comcast) 'own' the blocks of IP
addresses that each computer must have to participate on the Internet.
When you pay one of these people to host your server, they lend you an
IP address. You then map a name (list.purple.com) to that particular
ip address, and then people can use your server.
People don't find it easy to type in numbers like 153.104.63.228 all
the time, so other smart people invented DNS (the Domain Name system).
Almost every IP address has a DNS name mapped to it to make it easy
for people to use.
So using DNS, we can address things like email to list.purple.com
(which is a particular computer) instead of it's IP address, which is
153.104.63.228. Both those point to the same thing.
So, to answer #1, it looks like Villanova holds the DNS records for
purple. So it is safe to say that there _is_ an institutional
affiliation for purple.
Here is the record for it's DNS:
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;purple.com. IN A
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
purple.com. 6716 IN SOA ftp.ece.villanova.edu.
root.ftp.ece.villanova.edu. 2006061100 43200 14400 3600000 259200
;; Query time: 10 msec
;; SERVER: 207.245.82.2#53(207.245.82.2)
;; WHEN: Sun Jul 29 19:08:36 2007
And here is a GEO lookup for the actual list.purple.com computer:
The IP 153.104.63.228 is located in:
Country: United States (US)
Region: PA
City: Villanova
Latitude: 40.0369
Longitude: -75.3486
(http://www.websitegoodies.com/tools/geoip.php)
So, there you are.
-andy diller
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