merlin@smu.edu (David Hayes) (02/10/90)
Sorry to send this to what may be the wrong group, but this is the best-informed bunch of network people I know. We have a user who would like to access a machine on "EARN/BITNET". I can't find anything on this in the domain name tables. Please, what is this, and how do I connect to it? Thanks for as quick a response as possible, David Hayes School of Engineering Southern Methodist University merlin@smu.edu uunet!smu!merlin "Here's a test to see if your job here on Earth is finished: If you're still here, it isn't." -- Richard Bach, _Illusions_
RAF@CU.NIH.GOV ("Roger Fajman") (02/10/90)
> We have a user who would like to access a machine on "EARN/BITNET". > I can't find anything on this in the domain name tables. Please, > what is this, and how do I connect to it? Thanks for as quick > a response as possible, > > > David Hayes School of Engineering Southern Methodist University > merlin@smu.edu uunet!smu!merlin > "Here's a test to see if your job here on Earth is finished: If you're > still here, it isn't." -- Richard Bach, _Illusions_ Your own school, Southern Methodist University, is on BITNET with node name SMUVM1. I suggest that you contact the Inforep for that node, Michael Fritsche, (214) 692-3529, for assistance. By the way, the proper list for this type of question is Info-Nets@Think.com. There's probably a corresponding news group, but I don't recall the name. Roger Fajman RAF@NIHCU (BITNET) RAF@CU.NIH.GOV (Internet)
ebrill@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Ed Brill) (02/10/90)
In article <16106@smunews.UUCP> merlin@smu.edu (David Hayes) writes: >We have a user who would like to access a machine on "EARN/BITNET". >I can't find anything on this in the domain name tables. Please, >what is this, and how do I connect to it? Thanks for as quick >a response as possible, >David Hayes School of Engineering Southern Methodist University >merlin@smu.edu uunet!smu!merlin There are several machines on the Internet that act as gateways between the Internet and BITNET. Two examples I can think of are UICVM.UIC.EDU and CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU. You can address a message to user%nodename.bitnet@uicvm.uic.edu where the message will be passed from the Internet to BITNET. At least-- it usually works. Ed Brill -- University Computing Services | SysOp, The IU PC-Link Central BBS Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 | (812) 855-7252 -- 3/12/24/96/14.4 INTERNET: ebrill@subcomm.ucs.indiana.edu | KA9TAW @ K9IU [ham radio packet] "You mean BITNET isn't the only network we have to access the outside world?"