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- KIS - Knowbot Information Service
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- _A_d_d_r_e_s_s:
- Ralph Droms
- Computer Science Department
- 323 Dana Engineering
- Bucknell University
- Lewisburg, PA 17837
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- _E_m_a_i_l: droms@bucknell.edu
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- _P_h_o_n_e: (717) 523-1271
- FAX: (717) 524-3760
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- _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n
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- The Knowbot Information Service is a white pages ``meta-
- service'' that provides a uniform interface to heterogeneous
- white pages services in the Internet. Using the Knowbot
- Information Service, one can form a single query that can
- search for white pages information from the NIC WHOIS ser-
- vice, the RIPE European white pages service and MCI Mail,
- among others, and have the responses displayed in a single,
- uniform format.
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- Inclusion of additional information about an organization
- with which a person is affiliated enables access to addi-
- tional white pages services including the NYSERNet X.500
- White Pages Pilot project, and over 200 finger and whois
- services run by individual organizations. For example, a
- query about <droms@bucknell> will return results from the
- NYSERNet White Pages project and from the finger server on
- <sol.cs.bucknell.edu>.
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- _N_e_t_w_o_r_k _A_c_c_e_s_s
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- There are three ways to gain access to the Knowbot Informa-
- tion Service:
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- The information in this section is provided in accor-
- dance with the copyright notice appearing at the front
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- September 1, 1992 NNSC Section 4.5, Page 1
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- o+ Use the WHOIS frontends to the Knowbot information Ser-
- vice on hosts <nri.reston.va.us> and
- <regulus.cs.bucknell.edu>. For example, from a UNIX
- host, use <whois -h nri.reston.va.us cerf@cnri> to look
- for information about Vint Cerf affiliated with CNRI.
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- o+ Telnet to the Knowbot Information Service. Currently,
- there are servers accessible through a telnet to port
- 185 on hosts <nri.reston.va.us> and
- <regulus.cs.bucknell.edu>. From a UNIX host, use <tel-
- net nri.reston.va.us 185>. The commands help and man
- summarize the command interface.
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- o+ Send mail to userid <netaddress> at one of the Knowbot
- Information Service hosts.
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- _W_h_o _C_a_n _U_s_e _T_h_e _R_e_s_o_u_r_c_e
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- The Knowbot Information Service is available to all users
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