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To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
cc: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se>,
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Subject: Re: blowfish passwords in FreeBSD 
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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 07:57:18 +1100
From: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>
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On Tue, 18 Feb 1997 00:25:35 -0700  Warner Losh wrote:

> In message <199702172225.XAA21874@ocean.campus.luth.se> Mikael Karpberg writes:
> : install from a site called .edu/.us or .org/.com known to be US, or so.
> 
> .EDU, .COM and .ORG are international.  Do a whois on msi-uk.com
> sometime :-)

All domains are international.  I have a '.au' host in the USA, and
hundreds of '.se' hosts in Australia.

You are somewhat better off relying on IP address (assuming that you
can get the information on who is nominally where) but even this
doesn't help a lot.

Giles