mcmahan@netcom.UUCP (Dave Mc Mahan) (11/18/90)
In a previous article, jdk@cci632.UUCP (John Kemp) writes: >In article <5277@lanl.gov>, antek@bigraf.tamu.edu writes: >> I need any info how to contact the >> >> Maharishi International University, Fairfield, Iowa, USA. >> >> Thanks for ANY !!! help! Antek @ Bioch.Tamu.Edu, Bitnet: Antek @ Tambigrf > > I would also like this address if anyone would be so kind. I went to high >school there five years ago, and would very much like to get in touch with >some of the people I grew up with. (I wouldn't be surprised if some of those >people were still trying to pass finals.) 8-)) > Any help would be greatly apprieciated !!! >-John Kemp Ok, sportsfans. There seems to be an awful lot of requests for addresses to various places via Internet. It seems that the easiest way to solve this problem is for a short tutorial on how to find an address of someplace. Here is how I did it: 1) Make sure you are on a host cpu that maintains a decent set of maps. The following example assumes you have a Unix computer with the proper subdirectories set up and maintained. This stuff works on my host, if you have problems on yours, ask your sysadmin what to do. 2) Connect to the directory called /usr/spool/uumaps. Here, you will find ALL the answers to your questions. This is a list of every site your CPU knows about. There are about 100 files here, and each file contains info on various geographical regions of earth. For the address of the Mahrishi Int. University, I found the file named u.usa.ia.1, which happens to contain all the Internet addresses my host knows about in Iowa. 3) This part is tricky, because you might get lucky and find exactly what you need, but then again there might not be a site that matches what you want. You sort of have to play around and find a site that is close. This is what you do. Use an editor to edit the file (in this case, u.usa.ia.1). This file will probably be read-only, as your sysadmin doesn't want you mucking around with his data. If you need to, copy the desired file to your home directory where you can edit it. Now, search for the place you want. In the previous example, I figured that Mahrishi University wouldn't be spelled out in detail, so instead I searched for the name 'Fairfield', which is where this site is located. I discovered one business in that town that is connected to Internet, and the following: ------- System name: miucsv System type: Vax/VMS Eunice (4.3bsd); Vax 11/780 Organization: MIU Computer Science Dept. Contact person: Dr. Gregory Guthrie Email Address: miucsv!guthrie Telephone: +1 515 472 1125 Postal Address: Fairfield, IA 52556-2091 Long/Lat: 41 01 N / 91 59 W city Remarks: Author & date: jeannie@uunet.UU.NET (Jeannie Hill); Tue May 16 15:57:13 EDT 1989 News links: # miucsv uunet(DEMAND) ------- I assume this is the place you are looking for. To get a path name from your site to this place, use the Unix command : uupath miucsv This will tell you an e-mail address that routes to that site. In my case, the above command provides the response: apple!uunet!miucsv Just mail off a letter to uunet!miucsv!guthrie and see if you can get a response that gives you a net.address of the person(s) you are seeking. Hope this helps. Is this task detailed in the FAQ for this newsgroup? -dave -- Dave McMahan mcmahan@netcom.uucp {apple,amdahl,claris}!netcom!mcmahan
sanwalk@moore.com (Roy Sanwalka) (11/22/90)
I hate to be the one to bring this up, but it seems that some people here
are assuming that we are all running UUCP on our local machines and keeping
complete (and up to date) copies of the maps. THIS IS NOT ALWAYS TRUE!
From experience, I can tell you that most large sites (eg. anywhere with
more than a couple of machines on a net) usually has one host set aside as the
mail server. This eliminated the need to keep the UUCP maps on all of the
machines seperately, not to mention the Internet hosts table for Internet
sites. Also, this approach allows you to use more efficient methods for mail
transfer (SMTP over Ethernet) than UUCP.
So, in order to locate a given place, this first thing to do is find
out which machine at your sites is the mail server. Next, try using nslookup
if you're looking for an Internet site, as it is faster and more reliable
than the UUCP maps. And lastly, try the maps if all else fails.
That's all for now, "sportsfans"...
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