home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
-
- ==Phrack Inc.==
-
- Volume Three, Issue 28, File #4 of 12
-
- Network Miscellany
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- by Taran King
-
- June 1, 1989
-
-
- ACSNET
- ~~~~~~
- Australian Computer Science Network (ACSNET), also known as Oz,
- has its gateway through the CSNET node munnari.oz.au and if you
- cannot directly mail to the .oz.au domain, try either
- username%munnari.oz.au@UUNET.UU.NET or
- munnari!username@UUNET.UU.NET.
-
- AT&T MAIL
- ~~~~~~~~~
- AT&T Mail is a mailing service of AT&T, probably what you might
- call it's MCI-Mail equivalent. It is available on the UUCP
- network as node name attmail but I've had problems having mail
- get through. Apparently, it does cost money to mail to this
- service and the surrounding nodes are not willing to pick up the
- tab for the ingoing mail, or at least, this has seemingly been
- the case thus far. I believe, though, that perhaps routing to
- att!attmail!user would work.
-
- AT&T recently announced six new X.400 interconnections between
- AT&T Mail and electronic mail services in the U.S., Korea,
- Sweden, Australia, and Finland. In the U.S., AT&T Mail is now
- interconnected with Telenet Communications Corporation's service,
- Telemail, allowing users of both services to exchange messages
- easily. With the addition of these interconnections, the AT&T
- Mail Gateway 400 Service allows AT&T Mail subscribers to exchange
- messages with users of the following electronic messaging
- systems:
-
- Company E-Mail Name* Country
- ------- ------------ -------
- TeleDelta TeDe 400 Sweden
- OTC MPS400 Australia
- Telecom-Canada Envoy100 Canada
- DACOM DACOM MHS Korea
- P&T-Tele MailNet 400 Finland
- Helsinki Telephone Co. ELISA Finland
- Dialcom Dialcom USA
- Telenet Telemail USA
- KDD Messavia Japan
- Transpac ATLAS400 France
-
- The interconnections are based on the X.400 standard, a set of
- guidelines for the format, delivery and receipt of electronic
- messages recommended by an international standards committee the
- CCITT. International X.400 messages incur a surcharge. They
- are:
-
- To Canada:
- Per note: $.05
- Per message unit: $.10
-
- To other international locations:
- Per note: $.20
- Per message unit: $.50
-
- There is no surcharge for X.400 messages within the U.S. The
- following are contacts to speak with about mailing through these
- mentioned networks. Other questions can be directed through AT&T
- Mail's toll-free number, 1-800-624-5672.
-
- MHS Gateway: mhs!atlas MHS Gateway: mhs!dacom
- Administrator: Bernard Tardieu Administrator: Bob Nicholson
- Transpac AT&T
- Phone: 3399283203 Morristown, NJ 07960
- Phone: +1 201 644 1838
-
- MHS Gateway: mhs!dialcom MHS Gateway: mhs!elisa
- Administrator: Mr. Laraman Administrator: Ulla Karajalainen
- Dialcom Nokia Data
- South Plainfield, NJ 07080 Phone: 01135804371
- Phone: +1 441 493 3843
-
- MHS Gateway: mhs!envoy MHS Gateway: mhs!kdd
- Administrator: Kin C. Ma Administrator: Shigeo Lwase
- Telecom Canada Kokusai Denshin Denwa CO.
- Phone: +1 613 567 7584 Phone: 8133477419
-
- MHS Gateway: mhs!mailnet MHS Gateway: mhs!otc
- Administrator: Kari Aakala Administrator: Gary W. Krumbine
- Gen Directorate Of Post & AT&T Information Systems
- Phone: 35806921730 Lincroft, NJ 07738
- Phone: +1 201 576 2658
-
- MHS Gateway: mhs!telemail MHS Gateway: mhs
- Administrator: Jim Kelsay Administrator: AT&T Mail MHS
- GTE Telenet Comm Corp Gateway
- Reston, VA 22096 AT&T
- Phone: +1 703 689 6034 Lincroft, NJ 08838
- Phone: +1 800 624 5672
-
- CMR
- ~~~
- Previously known as Intermail, the Commercial Mail Relay (CMR)
- Service is a mail relay service between the Internet and three
- commercial electronic mail systems: US Sprint/Telenet, MCI-Mail,
- and DIALCOM systems (i.e. Compmail, NSFMAIL, and USDA-MAIL).
-
- An important note: The only requirement for using this mail
- gateway is that the work conducted must be DARPA sponsored
- research and other approved government business. Basically, this
- means that unless you've got some government-related business,
- you're not supposed to be using this gateway. Regardless, it
- would be very difficult for them to screen everything that goes
- through their gateway. Before I understood the requirements of
- this gateway, I was sending to a user of MCI-Mail and was not
- contacted about any problems with that communication.
- Unfortunately, I mistyped the MCI-Mail address on one of the
- letters and that letter ended up getting read by system
- administrators who then informed me that I was not to be using
- that system, as well as the fact that they would like to bill me
- for using it. That was an interesting thought on their part
- anyway, but do note that using this service does incur charges.
-
- The CMR mailbox address in each system corresponds to the label:
-
- Telemail: [Intermail/USCISI]TELEMAIL/USA
- MCI-Mail: Intermail or 107-8239
- CompMail: Intermail or CMP0817
- NSF-Mail: Intermail or NSF153
- USDA-Mail: Intermail or AGS9999
-
- Addressing examples for each e-mail system are as follows:
-
- MCIMAIL:
- 123-4567 seven digit address
- Everett T. Bowens person's name (must be unique!)
-
- COMPMAIL:
- CMP0123 three letters followed by three or four digits
- S.Cooper initial, then "." and then last name
- 134:CMP0123 domain, then ":" and then combination system and
- account number
-
- NSFMAIL:
- NSF0123 three letters followed by three or four digits
- A.Phillips initial, then "." and then last name
- 157:NSF0123 domain, then ":" and then combination system and
- account number
-
- USDAMAIL:
- AGS0123 three letters followed by three or four digits
- P.Shifter initial, then "." and then last name
- 157:AGS0123 domain, then ":" and then combination system and
- account number
-
- TELEMAIL:
- BARNOC user (directly on Telemail)
- BARNOC/LODH user/organization (directly on Telemail)
- [BARNOC/LODH]TELEMAIL/USA
- [user/organization]system branch/country
-
- The following are other Telenet system branches/countries that
- can be mailed to:
-
- TELEMAIL/USA NASAMAIL/USA MAIL/USA TELEMEMO/AUSTRALIA
- TELECOM/CANADA TOMMAIL/CHILE TMAILUK/GB ITALMAIL/ITALY
- ATI/JAPAN PIPMAIL/ROC DGC/USA FAAMAIL/USA
- GSFC/USA GTEMAIL/USA TM11/USA TNET.TELEMAIL/USA
- USDA/USA
-
- Note: OMNET's ScienceNet is on the Telenet system MAIL/USA and to mail to
- it, the format would be [A.MAILBOX/OMNET]MAIL/USA. The following are available
- subdivisions of OMNET:
-
- AIR Atmospheric Sciences
- EARTH Solid Earth Sciences
- LIFE Life Sciences
- OCEAN Ocean Sciences
- POLAR Interdisciplinary Polar Studies
- SPACE Space Science and Remote Sensing
-
- The following is a list of DIALCOM systems available in the
- listed countries with their domain and system numbers:
-
- Service Name Country Domain Number System Number
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Keylink-Dialcom Australia 60 07, 08, 09
- Dialcom Canada 20 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
- DPT Databoks Denmark 124 71
- Telebox Finland 127 62
- Telebox West Germany 30 15, 16
- Dialcom Hong Kong 80 88, 89
- Eirmail Ireland 100 74
- Goldnet Israel 50 05, 06
- Mastermail Italy 130 65, 67
- Mastermail Italy 1 66, 68
- Dialcom Japan 70 13, 14
- Dialcom Korea 1 52
- Telecom Gold Malta 100 75
- Dialcom Mexico 1 52
- Memocom Netherlands 124 27, 28, 29
- Memocom Netherlands 1 55
- Starnet New Zealand 64 01, 02
- Dialcom Puerto Rico 58 25
- Telebox Singapore 88 10, 11, 12
- Dialcom Taiwan 1 52
- Telecom Gold United Kingdom 100 01, 04, 17,
- 80-89
- DIALCOM USA 1 29, 30, 31, 32,
- 33, 34, 37, 38,
- 41-59, 61, 62, 63,
- 90-99
-
- NOTE: You can also mail to username@NASAMAIL.NASA.GOV or
- username@GSFCMAIL.NASA.GOV instead of going through the CMR gateway to
- mail to NASAMAIL or GSFCMAIL.
-
- For more information and instructions on how to use CMR, send a
- message to the user support group at
- intermail-request@intermail.isi.edu (you'll get basically what
- I've listed plus maybe a bit more). Please read Chapter 3 of The
- Future Transcendent Saga (Limbo to Infinity) for specifics on
- mailing to these destination mailing systems.
-
- COMPUSERVE
- ~~~~~~~~~~
- CompuServe is well known for its games and conferences. It does, though, have
- mailing capability. Now, they have developed their own Internet domain, called
- COMPUSERVE.COM. It is relatively new and mail can be routed through either
- TUT.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU or NORTHWESTERN.ARPA.
-
- Example: user%COMPUSERVE.COM@TUT.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU or replace
- TUT.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU with NORTHWESTERN.ARPA).
-
- The CompuServe link appears to be a polled UUCP connection at the
- gateway machine. It is actually managed via a set of shell
- scripts and a comm utility called xcomm, which operates via
- command scripts built on the fly by the shell scripts during
- analysis of what jobs exist to go into and out of CompuServe.
-
- CompuServe subscriber accounts of the form 7xxxx,yyyy can be
- addressed as 7xxxx.yyyy@compuserve.com. CompuServe employees can
- be addressed by their usernames in the csi.compuserve.com
- subdomain. CIS subscribers write mail to
- ">inet:user@host.domain" to mail to users on the Wide-Area
- Networks, where ">gateway:" is CompuServe's internal gateway
- access syntax. The gateway generates fully-RFC-compliant
- headers.
-
- To fully extrapolate -- from the CompuServe side, you would use
- their EasyPlex mail system to send mail to someone in BITNET or
- the Internet. For example, to send me mail at my Bitnet id, you
- would address it to:
-
- INET:C488869%UMCVMB.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
-
- Or to my Internet id:
-
- INET:C488869@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU
-
- Now, if you have a BITNET to Internet userid, this is a silly
- thing to do, since your connect time to CompuServe costs you
- money. However, you can use this information to let people on
- CompuServe contact YOU. CompuServe Customer Service says that
- there is no charge to either receive or send a message to the
- Internet or BITNET.
-
- DASNET
- ~~~~~~
- DASnet is a smaller network that connects to the Wide-Area
- Networks but charges for their service. DASnet subscribers get
- charged for both mail to users on other networks AND mail for
- them from users of other networks. The following is a brief
- description of DASnet, some of which was taken from their
- promotional text letter.
-
- DASnet allows you to exchange electronic mail with people on more
- than 20 systems and networks that are interconnected with DASnet.
- One of the drawbacks, though, is that, after being subscribed to
- these services, you must then subscribe to DASnet, which is a
- separate cost. Members of Wide-Area networks can subscribe to
- DASnet too. Some of the networks and systems reachable through
- DASnet include the following:
-
- ABA/net, ATT Mail, BIX (Byte Information eXchange), DASnet Network,
- Dialcom, EIES, EasyLink, Envoy 100, FAX, GeoMail, INET, MCI Mail, NWI,
- PeaceNet/EcoNet, Portal Communications, The Meta Network, The Source,
- Telemail, ATI's Telemail (Japan), Telex, TWICS (Japan), UNISON, UUCP, The
- WELL, and Domains (i.e. ".COM" and ".EDU" etc.). New systems are added
- all of the time. As of the writing of this file, Connect, GoverNET,
- MacNET, and The American Institute of Physics PI-MAIL are soon to be
- connected.
-
- You can get various accounts on DASnet including:
-
- o Corporate Accounts -- If your organization wants more than one individual
- subscription.
- o Site Subscriptions -- If you want DASnet to link directly to your
- organization's electronic mail system.
-
- To send e-mail through DASnet, you send the message to the DASnet
- account on your home system. You receive e-mail at your mailbox,
- as you do now. On the Wide-Area Networks, you send mail to
- XB.DAS@STANFORD.BITNET. On the Subject: line, you type the
- DASnet address in brackets and then the username just outside of
- them. The real subject can be expressed after the username
- separated by a "!" (Example: Subject: [0756TK]randy!How's
- Phrack?).
-
- The only disadvantage of using DASnet as opposed to Wide-Area
- networks is the cost. Subscription costs as of 3/3/89 cost $4.75
- per month or $5.75 per month for hosts that are outside of the
- U.S.A.
-
- You are also charged for each message that you send. If you are
- corresponding with someone who is not a DASnet subscriber, THEIR
- MAIL TO YOU is billed to your account.
-
- The following is an abbreviated cost list for mailing to the
- different services of DASnet:
-
- PARTIAL List DASnet Cost DASnet Cost
- of Services 1st 1000 Each Add'l 1000
- Linked by DASnet (e-mail) Characters Characters:
-
- INET, MacNET, PeaceNet, NOTE: 20 lines
- Unison, UUCP*, Domains, .21 .11 of text is app.
- e.g. .COM, .EDU* 1000 characters.
-
- Dialcom--Any "host" in U.S. .36 .25
-
- Dialcom--Hosts outside U.S. .93 .83
-
- EasyLink (From EasyLink) .21 .11
- (To EasyLink) .55 .23
-
- U.S. FAX (internat'l avail.) .79 .37
-
- GeoMail--Any "host" in U.S. .21 .11
- GeoMail--Hosts outside U.S. .74 .63
-
- MCI (from MCI) .21 .11
- (to MCI) .78 .25
- (Paper mail - USA) 2.31 .21
-
- Telemail .36 .25
-
- W.U. Telex--United States 1.79 1.63
- (You can also send Telexes outside the U.S.)
-
- TWICS--Japan .89 .47
-
- * The charges given here are to the gateway to the network. The DASnet
- user is not charged for transmission on the network itself.
-
- Subscribers to DASnet get a free DASnet Network Directory as well
- as a listing in the directory, and the ability to order optional
- DASnet services like auto-porting or DASnet Telex Service which
- gives you your own Telex number and answerback for $8.40 a month
- at this time.
-
- DASnet is a registered trademark of DA Systems, Inc.
-
- DA Systems, Inc. 1503 E. Campbell
- Ave.
- Campbell, CA 95008 408-559-7434
- TELEX: 910 380-3530
-
- The following two sections on PeaceNet and AppleLink are in
- association with DASnet as this network is what is used to
- connect them to the Wide-Area Networks.
-
- APPLELINK ~~~~~~~~~ AppleLink is a service of Apple Computer.
- They have their own little network and there are a couple of
- things to know about it.
-
- First of all, there is an AppleLink-Bitnet Mail Relay which was
- created to "enrich the cooperative research relationship of Apple
- Computer and the higher education community by facilitating the
- electronic exchange of information." Any Bitnet user is
- automatically authorized to use the mail relay as well as all
- AppleLink users.
-
- To send to AppleLink from Bitnet, your header should be as
- follows:
-
- To: XB.DAS@STANFORD.BITNET Subject: username@APPLELINK!Hi, how
- are things at Apple?
-
- The username is the user's ID that you are sending to and the "!"
- separates the DASnet To: field from the real subject.
-
- To send to Bitnet from AppleLink, your header should be as
- follows:
-
- To: DASNET Subject: C488869@UMCVMB.BITNET!Please add me to the
- Phrack Subscription List.
-
- The C488869@UMCVMB.BITNET (my address) is any Bitnet address and
- as above, the "!" separates the address from the subject of the
- message.
-
- There is one other thing to mention. Apparently, sending to
- username@APPLELINK.APPLE.COM also will perform the same function.
- If this does not work, try routing to
- username%APPLELINK.APPLE.COM@APPLE.COM.
-
- PEACENET ~~~~~~~~ PeaceNet is a computer-based communication
- system "helping the peace movement throughout the world
- communicate and cooperate more effectively and efficiently,"
- according to their information flier. It is networked through
- Telenet and can be reached via dial-up. To subscribe to this
- service, it costs $10 to sign up. With this sign-up fee, you
- receive a user's manual and a "free" hour of off-peak computer
- time (which is weekday evenings, weekends, and
- holidays). Beyond this, you pay a monthly $10 fee for another
- hour of off-peak computer usage and you pay $5 for additional
- PEAK hour usage. They charge, also, for users who require extra
- space on their system. I guess peace carries a heavy cost in the
- long run! You do get 2 free hours of off-peak time though for
- every additional user you bring to PeaceNet. It is a project of
- the Tides Foundation, a San Franciscan public charity, and is
- managed by 3 national peace organizations (non-profit, of
- course!). Anyway, to join PeaceNet, send your name,
- organizational affiliation, address, city, state, zip code,
- telephone number, and who referred you to PeaceNet as well as
- your credit card number with expiration date (and the name on the
- card if it's different than yours) to PeaceNet, 3228 Sacramento
- Street, San Francisco, CA 94115 or call them at 415-923-0900.
- You can also pay by check but that requires a $50 deposit.
-
- FIDONET
- ~~~~~~~
- FIDONET is, of course, the ever-popular group of IBM bulletin
- boards that made it possible for networking to be incorporated
- into bulletin board systems. FIDONET seems to have a number of
- gateways in the Wide-Area Networks. First of all, it has its own
- domain -- .ifna.org -- which makes it possible to mail right to
- FIDONET without routing through UUCP gateways or whatever. The
- format for this gateway is:
-
- Username@f<node #>.n<net #>.z<zone #>.ifna.org
-
- In other words, if I wanted to mail to Silicon Swindler at
- 1:135/5, the address would be
- Silicon_Swindler@f5.n135.z1.ifna.org and, provided that your
- mailer knows the .ifna.org domain, it should get through alright.
- Apparently, as of the writing of this article, they have
- implemented a new gateway name called fidonet.org which should
- work in place of ifna.org in all routings. If your mailer does
- not know either of these domains, use the above routing but
- replace the first "@" with a "%" and then afterwards, use either
- of the following mailers after the "@": CS.ORST.EDU or
- K9.CS.ORST.EDU (i.e. username%f<node #>.n<net #>.z<zone
- #>.fidonet.org@CS.ORST.EDU [or replace CS.ORST.EDU with
- K9.CS.ORST.EDU]).
-
- The following is a list compiled by Bill Fenner (WCF@PSUECL.BITNET) that was
- posted on INFONETS DIGEST which lists a number of FIDONET gateways:
-
- Net Node Node Name
- ~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~
- 104 56 milehi.ifna.org
- 105 55 casper.ifna.org
- 107 320 rubbs.ifna.org
- 109 661 blkcat.ifna.org
- 125 406 fidogate.ifna.org
- 128 19 hipshk.ifna.org
- 129 65 insight.ifna.org
- 143 N/A fidogate.ifna.org
- 152 200 castle.ifna.org
- 161 N/A fidogate.ifna.org
- 369 17 megasys.ifna.org
-
- NOTE: The UUCP equivalent node name is the first part of the node name. In
- other words, the UUCP node milehi is listed as milehi.ifna.org but can
- be mailed directly over the UUCP network.
-
- Another way to mail to FIDONET, specifically for Internet people, is in this
- format:
-
- ihnp4!necntc!ncoast!ohiont!<net #>!<node #>!user_name@husc6.harvard.edu
-
- And for those UUCP mailing people out there, just use the path described and
- ignore the @husc5.harvard.edu portion. There is a FIDONET NODELIST available on
- most any FIDONET bulletin board, but it is quite large.
-
- ONTYME
- ~~~~~~
- Previously known as Tymnet, OnTyme is the McDonnell Douglas revision. After
- they bought out Tymnet, they renamed the company and opened an experimental
- Internet gateway at ONTYME.TYMNET.COM but this is supposedly only good for
- certain corporate addresses within McDonnell Douglas and Tymnet, not their
- customers. The userid format is xx.yyy or xx.y/yy where xx is a net name and
- yyy (or y/yy) is a true username. If you cannot directly nail this, try:
-
- xx.yyy%ONTYME.TYMNET.COM@TYMIX.TYMNET.COM
-
- A subnet of Tymnet is called GeoNet. It is a private X.25-based
- subnet that is operated by the U.S. Geological Survey, a bureau
- of the U.S. Department of the Interior. It supports about 165
- host computers including about 75 USGS Primes, 50 VAXen, and 2
- Amdahls. One of their VAX systems is on BITnet at USGSRESV and
- they have SPAN nodes at IFLAG1.SPAN and EROSA.SPAN.
-
- THENET
- ~~~~~~
- The Texas Higher Education Network (THEnet) is comprised of many
- of the institutions of higher education in the state of Texas.
- Its backbone network protocol is DECnet. THEnet has recently
- been designated as an NSF regional network, distributing Internet
- Protocol (IP) access over DECnet in some cases and utilizing
- multi-protocol routers in others. THEnet has a NIC (Network
- Information Center) at THENIC.THE.NET and addresses within THEnet
- are probably routed to user@destination.THE.NET.
-
- UUCP PATHS AND NODE INFORMATION
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Many UUCP Unix nodes have the commands uuhosts and uupath. The
- uuhosts command allows you to receive information about a
- specified UUCP node such as the path, node contact, how it is
- polled for USENET feeds, etc. The uupath command simply tells
- you the path from one UUCP node to another. Well, although at
- this time, this is only good for Bitnet users, this interactive
- message feature is good to know just in case you need to know a
- path to a particular node. For IBM systems using RSCS network
- software, use the command
-
- SM RSCS CMD PSUVAX1 UUPATH node1 node2 ...
-
- (For people on VAXen with JNET network software, the format is: )
- (SEND/COMMAND PSUVAX1 UUPATH node1 )
-
- to receive standard information listed above from the uupath command.
-
- Multiple nodes can be listed where node1 node2 represent separate UUCP nodes.
-
- I've found that this can be useful in finding surrounding nodes
- of the destination node in case you have a problem mailing
- through a particular path or node. You can, with this command,
- use alternate routings by specifying them with a "bang-path" that
- will indicate to the UUCP gateway where the message is to be sent
- to next. This is in the format of, say,
- "psuvax1!catch22!msp!taran@UUCPGATE" or whatever where UUCPGATE
- can be any UUCP gateway such as PSUVAX1 or UUNET.UU.NET to name a
- few.
-
- NICS
- ~~~~
- The Network Information Centers (NICs) can be extremely useful in
- figuring out various problems on the networks, such as routings
- or the place at which the node resides, etc.
-
- BITNIC is the BITnet Network Information Center which is located
- in New Jersey. Its node name is BITNIC.BITNET and it contains a
- variety of resources which can be utilized via mail or via direct
- messages from Bitnet users.
-
- The DATABASE@BITNIC contains lists of all kinds. This database
- does not limit itself to information about the networks. It does
- contain this information, but also holds various trivialities.
- Send the HELP command either via direct message to
- DATABASE@BITNIC if on Bitnet or send mail to that address
- containing the command you wish to perform (i.e. send a message
- saying HELP to DATABASE@BITNIC.BITNET from another network or
- from Bitnet if you're at a node without direct message
- capabilities).
-
- LISTSERV@BITNIC contains the standard listserver files that you'd
- expect to find plus some other interesting ones. I'm not going
- to take the time to tutor you, the reader, in using these, so
- just send a HELP command the same as you would to DATABASE@BITNIC
- for more information.
-
- NETSERV@BITNIC is a file server which contains information files
- pertaining to various networks that are connected to Bitnet, as
- well as files about Bitnet. From here, you can get network node
- lists, information files on networks such as SPAN, ARPANET,
- NETNORTH, etc. and other network related files. This can be an
- extremely useful resource when you're trying to mail someone at
- another network.
-
- The Data Defense Network NIC (DDN NIC) is located at SRI-NIC.ARPA
- and has various useful files about the DDN as well as the
- Internet.
-
- There are a number of ways to obtain information from the DDN
- NIC. First of all, people on the Internet with the Telnet
- capability can Telnet to SRI-NIC.ARPA and perform a number of
- procedures from the pre-login screen. First of all, you can get
- TAC News updates by typing TACNEWS. The NIC command allows you
- to find various facts about the whereabouts of network
- information files, etc. The WHOIS command is probably the most
- useful of these 3. The WHOIS program allows you to find
- addresses for registered users of the networks as well as
- information about networks and nodes on the networks, depending
- on what you ask the WHOIS program for. To find only a certain
- record type, you can use the following specifiers:
-
- Arpanet DOmain GAteway GRoup HOst IMp
- Milnet NEtwork Organization PSn TAc
-
- To search for a specific field, use the following specifiers:
-
- HAndle or "!" Mailbox or if it contains "@" NAme or a "." leading
-
- These features return whatever information is available from the DDN NIC
- database. If you do not have the capability to use Telnet, mail can be sent to
- SERVICE@SRI-NIC.ARPA with the "SUBJECT:" line containing the following
- commands:
-
- HELP This will send you a help file for using the DDN NIC.
- RFC nnn This sends you a Request For Comments file (where nnn is either
- the number of the RFC file or else is INDEX to list them).
- IEN nnn This sends you an Internet Engineering Notes file where nnn is
- the same as above.
- NETINFO xxx This feature allows you to get files about the networks where
- xxx is the filename or else the word INDEX for a list of
- available files.
- HOST xxx This returns information pertaining to the xxx host specified.
- WHOIS xxx This is the same as using the WHOIS command from Telnet. For
- details on how to use this, send the WHOIS HELP command on the
- "Subject:" line.
-
- There are other Network Information Centers throughout the networks but as far
- as I know, their abilities are nothing near as powerful as SRI-NIC.ARPA. They
- are the places, though, to mail to for answers concerning those networks if
- you have some question as to the workings of the network or anything else.
- _______________________________________________________________________________
-
-