Daniel_Murphy@MTS.RPI.EDU (05/30/91)
I obtained a reference concerning IBM's VNET from the 1989 book THE MATRIX by John Quarterman, and he cited this net address. The name of the author was H. Nussbacher. Any info. on the availability of the VNET information in the U.S. would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Daniel Murphy Communication Dept. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY USA
LVARIAN@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU ("Lee C. Varian") (06/02/91)
Dear Daniel Murphy, VNET is the name of IBM's internal RSCS network. There is now a gateway between VNET and the Internet. The gateway acts as a filtering gateway and IBM users who wish to send or receive mail from Internet users must register themselves to this gateway. As of this time, a great many IBMers are registered to use the gateway. You can inquire of the gateway to find out whether a particular IBMer is registered (and what his/her Email address is) by sending mail to nic@vnet.ibm.com and just including as the subject line: whois name The vnet gateway will respond with mail such as the following, which I used to find out that John Hartmann (the developer of IBM's CMS Pipelines product) was registered for the gateway. >Date: Fri, 31 May 91 21:18:03 EDT >From: nic@vnet.ibm.com >To: LVARIAN@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU >Subject: WHOIS Facility > >Hartmann, John is john@cphvm1.vnet.ibm.com > >Multiple requests may be made in a single note provided they do >not exceed the daily limit of 25. As this example illustrates, the Internet address for most IBM VNET users whose VNET address might be user@node would be user@node.vnet.ibm.com . You need also to be sensitive to the Acceptable Use Policies of NSFnet and your midlevel network, which would disallow commercial activity (such as placing an order over the network) but would allow other messages which were of an educational or research nature. I hope this helps. Lee Varian, Princeton University
HANK@BARILVM.BITNET (Hank Nussbacher) (06/04/91)
In article <2333157@MTS.RPI.EDU>, Daniel_Murphy@MTS.RPI.EDU says: > >I obtained a reference concerning IBM's VNET from the 1989 book >THE MATRIX by John Quarterman, and he cited this net address. >The name of the author was H. Nussbacher. Any info. on the >availability of the VNET information in the U.S. would be >greatly appreciated. Thank you. IBM now has a direct internet connection. Their ids are user@node.vnet.ibm.com Contact your collegues in IBM to get their ids and nodenames and remind them to ask permission for use of the internet gateway. > >Daniel Murphy >Communication Dept. >Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute >Troy, NY >USA Hank Nussbacher Israel