s873561@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Michael Barnett) (03/02/91)
A friend has recently arrived from South Africa, and wants to know if it is
possible to get through to SAPONET from Internet. Can anyone help me?
Also, are there any South African (or anywhere in Africa for that matter) sites
on Internet?
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In article <1991Mar2.094310.23147@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>, s873561@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Michael Barnett) writes: > A friend has recently arrived from South Africa, and wants to know if > it is possible to get through to SAPONET from Internet. Can anyone > help me? SAPONET is the South African Post Office's X.25 network (network number 6550 in the international X.25 scheme of things). Many Internet systems have X.25 connections, and can therefore send X.25 packets to systems on SAPONET. Whether or not that would be useful to your friend is a different question altogether. What is it that he *really* wants to do? > Also, are there any South African (or anywhere in Africa for that > matter) sites on Internet? I don't know of any in Southern Africa, though it is possible that some multinational companies have their African branch offices connected up over IP, but keep such information to themselves. --apb Alan Barrett, Dept. of Electronic Eng., Univ. of Natal, Durban, South Africa Internet: barrett@ee.und.ac.za (or %ee.und.ac.za@saqqara.cis.ohio-state.edu) UUCP: m2xenix!quagga!undeed!barrett PSI-Mail: PSI%(6550)13601353::BARRETT
pinkham@ucthpx.uct.ac.za (Chris Pinkham) (03/05/91)
s873561@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Michael Barnett) writes: >A friend has recently arrived from South Africa, and wants to know if it is >possible to get through to SAPONET from Internet. Can anyone help me? SAPONET is the South African Post Office X.25 network. It has links into X.25 networks overseas, and you should be able to reach any SAPONET DTE address from any established X.25 network your way. >Also, are there any South African (or anywhere in Africa for that matter) sites >on Internet? Not directly on the Intenet, but a number of universities, research organisations (under the umbrella of a networking body called Uninet), and private organisations (through the local UUCP network) have access to mail and news. There is a ZA domain registered, and subdomains of that domain are starting to appear all over the place. -- Chris Pinkham Internet: pinkham@ucthpx.uct.ac.za Systems Programmer UUCP: ...!m2xenix!quagga!ucthpx!pinkham University of Cape Town