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- From: francis@monod.Biol.McGill.CA (Francis Ouellette)
- Subject: Re: Whois/What is Archie
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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 19:02:56 GMT
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- stokesj@gordon-emh1.army.mil ( SFC John Stokes) writes:
-
- >It looks like Archie is
- >a host that maintains some type of master index to most anonymous ftp
- >host and the programs available on each. Is this true?
-
- correct!
-
- >I have tried
- >many wildcard searches of the whois database at the NIC with no luck.
- >How do I reach Archie? What is the full host name and what is it's IP
- >address?
-
- archie
-
- archie.ans.net (USA [NY]) 147.225.1.2
- archie.rutgers.edu (USA [NJ]) 128.6.18.15
- archie.sura.net (USA [MD]) 128.167.254.179
- archie.mcgill.ca (Canada) 132.206.2.3
- archie.funet.fi (Finland/Mainland Europe) 128.214.6.100
- archie.au (Australia) 139.130.4.6
- archie.doc.ic.ac.uk (Great Britain/Ireland) 146.169.11.3
-
-
- telnet to the closest (or fastest!) Archie server to you, login as
- "archie" (no "") and read the the help.
-
- Alternatively you can just send for "help" to the archie site
- itself (just the word help in the body of your text).
-
- best of luck,
-
- francis
-
-
- --
- | B.F. Francis Ouellette
- | manager, yeast chromosome I project
- | dept of biology, McGill university, Montreal, Qc, Canada
- | francis@monod.biol.mcgill.ca
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