fzcapit@MIZAR.UCDAVIS.EDU (John Capitanio) (04/02/91)
Forgive me if this is a topic that crops up with annoying regularity -- I'm new to this newsgroup. Does a directory exist of Telnet access numbers across the U.S.? I expect to be travelling a bit in the next few months, and would love to be able to access my home mainframe from wherever I happen to be. I can do anonymous FTP, so if such a directory is archived somewhere, location and filename would be helpful. Thanks, John EMAIL:jpcapitanio@ucdavis.edu or jpcapitanio@ucdavis.bitnet
jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) (04/03/91)
In article <009467A0.943B0020@MIZAR.UCDAVIS.EDU>, fzcapit@MIZAR.UCDAVIS.EDU (John Capitanio) writes: |> Does a directory exist of Telnet access numbers across the U.S.? |> I expect to be travelling a bit in the next few months, and would |> love to be able to access my home mainframe from wherever I happen |> to be. I can do anonymous FTP, so if such a directory is archived |> somewhere, location and filename would be helpful. What exactly are you talking about when you say "Telnet access numbers?" Do you mean that you're looking for public access sites on the Internet with local telephone numbers so that you can dial them up and then connect over the Internet to your home mainframe? Or do you mean that you're looking for the IP addresses of Internet sites in various locations across the country? Or something else? In general, there aren't a lot of public-access Internet sites, because the rules of the use of the various regional networks that make up the Internet do not make it easy to justify such sites. I believe, however, that there are a few such sites in the nixpub posting (see this newsgoup and alt.bbs, and wait for the next time it is posted, or anonymous ftp it from uop.uop.edu:/pub or sutro.sfsu.edu:/stuff). If you're going to be in an alternate location for an extended period of time, you can sometimes convince a generous admin at a local University to give you an account for net access on one of their machines. Finally, if all else fails, you can join PC Pursuit, dial into a local telenet (or is it tymnet? I forget) node and dial out in your home city to get to your mainframe (assuming that it has modems for incoming calls). -- Jonathan Kamens USnail: MIT Project Athena 11 Ashford Terrace jik@Athena.MIT.EDU Allston, MA 02134 Office: 617-253-8085 Home: 617-782-0710