speck@cit-vax.ARPA (Don Speck) (02/29/84)
Is there any kind of electronic-mail address directory -- someplace where I can look up the electronic address of people that I'd like to send electronic mail to? I'm hoping for the electronic-mail equivalent of a telephone directory (indexed by name and university?), though I realize that is probably hopelessly naive. -Don- P.S. I am not on the list, so please send replies to me (speck@cit-vax).
cak@Purdue.ARPA (Christopher A Kent) (02/29/84)
If you're a CSNET member, you can access the CSNET "nameserver", which is just such a white pages, of CSNET members. There are even hacks to go into delivermail and sendmail (I think the 4.2 version is done now) and let you put nameserver queries into your outgoing headers. Contact CIC@CSNET-CIC for full details. Cheers, chris ----------
RICH.GVT@office-3.ARPA (Rich Zellich) (02/29/84)
There is also, of long standing, the ARPANET Network Information Center Query system. You can connect to the SRI-NIC host (0/73 or 10.0.0.73) and give the login/command NICQUERY. That will drop you into an interactive program tht lets you ask about ANY resource on the ARPANET/MilNet - users, hosts, TACs, software, etc. There is also the NIC-provided WHOIS program, that interacts across a network connection with the NIC's user data base. A copy of WHOIS is available free from the NIC for at least Tenex, TOPS-20, and Unix systems. For more information, try a copy of the ARPANET Resource Handbook or ARPANET Directory, if you can find one of them locally, or send netmail to NIC@SRI-NIC. -Rich
ROODE@sri-nic.ARPA (David Roode) (02/29/84)
You can access the NIC database of MILNET and ARPANET users via a TCP connection to port 43 decimal on SRI-NIC as described in RFC812. Various types of search qualifications are available including mailbox name across all sites and specific mailbox as well as site name. We are interested in specific suggestions for improvements to this server. If you do not have a capability to access this server from your site, you can telnet to SRI-NIC and use the command "WHOIS" which is available without need for login. A help message for this program is available as HLP:WHOIS.HLP from SRI-NIC (via FTP under the ANONYMOUS login convention). -------
steve@brl-bmd.ARPA (Stephen Wolff) (02/29/84)
And rfc812 or more generally rfcnnn is available via ANONYMOUS FTP of the file <rfc>rfcnnn.txt at SRI-NIC.
Turkewitz@dca-eur.ARPA (02/29/84)
Date: 29 Feb 1984 09:58:14 Z
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Date: 29 February 1984 08:41 GMT
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Re: electronic-mail "telephone directory"
Date: 29 Feb 1984 08:28:27 Z
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Don,
The NIC (Network Operations Center at SRI in Menlo Park) keeps
such a directory for the Defense Data Network (DDN). It is accessed
via the "nicname" protocol (RFC 812). The nicname server runs on
the SRI-NIC machine. You will need the nicname user program (if you
don't already have it on your machine), which in many cases can be
obtained from the NIC. You then type "nicname name" to access the
directory. There are other options to. Send a message to NIC @ SIR-NIC
for further information.
--Ken
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