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From: josh@polaris.UUCP (Josh Knight)
Newsgroups: net.net-people
Subject: Re: What is BITNET ??
Message-ID: <163@polaris.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 6-Jul-85 21:15:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: polaris.163
Posted: Sat Jul 6 21:15:41 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jul-85 05:58:45 EDT
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Organization: IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, N.Y.
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> I am trying to contact people at Trento, Italy.
> I know that their vax is on a network called "bitnet".
>
> Can someone suggest some possible routings that I
> might use to make contact with them ??
BITNET is a network of computers, many manufactured by IBM, connected
together using RSCS. BITNET is essentially an external (to IBM) version
of VNET (Xref: seismo net.mail:976 net.net-people:741), the internal
IBM network. There are Vaxen running Unix on this network (using UREP,
software developed at Penn State) and Vaxen running VMS (most using JNET,
marketed by Joiner Associates). EARN (or EARNET) is just the European portion
of BITNET, so however one gets mail to a BITNET site, that's how one gets
mail to an EARN site. As for gateways, appended is information from a
"NAMES FILE " (of the VM/CMS flavor) on the two "canonical" gateways to
BITNET. The UUCP gateway is psuvax1.UUCP. The ARPANet and CSNet gateway
is at the University of Wisconsin, uwisc.ARPA or wisconsin.CSNET.
The format is :. so that the nodenum
(node number) of the psuvax1 site is 0070.
As an example, something like ...allegra!psuvax1!josh%yktvmh.BITNET or
josh%yktvmh.BITNET@uwisc.ARPA or josh%yktvmh.BITNET@wisconsin.CSNET
should all work to get mail to me. Mark Starner provided essentially similar
information about the psuvax1 gateway in January <1599@psuvax1.UUCP>.
As for Italians in Trento, try asking Aldo Montaguti, amt0@icineca.BITNET,
or from UUCP land ...allegra!psuvax1!amt0%icineca.BITNET.
Of course all this information is supplied by just me (not IBM) and
even I (not to mention IBM) make no representation that the information
supplied is correct, complete or up-to-date.
Indeed there may not be any information here at all (surely no opinions).
Josh Knight
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
josh@yktvmh.BITNET, josh.yktvmh.ibm-sj@csnet-relay.ARPA
- - - - - - ------cut here for BITNET information------ - - - - - - -
:nick.PSUVAX1 :alias.PSUVAX1 :nodenum.0070 :via.PSUVM :net.BITNET :gmtoff.
:adjnodes1. :adjtypes1. :aliasnum.
:site.Pennsylvania State University :abbr.Pennsylvania State University
:system.Berkeley Unix 4.2 :machine.DEC VAX 11/780 :netsoft.UREP :msgs.YES
:cmds.YES :files.YES :country.USA :longitude.078W 05 :latitude.041N 00
:connect.81275 :mailer. :postmast. :gates.UUCP :mformat.PUNCH :mclass.M
:fformat.DISK DUMP :fclass.N :tformat.DISK DUMP :tclass.N
:bitdirector. :director.
:contact.(Dave Eckhardt) DAE@PSUVAX1 ((814) 863-0075)
:inform1.(Bob Owens) OWENS@PSUVAX1 :info1.UREP
:inform2.(Dave Eckhardt) DAE@PSUVAX1 ((814) 863-0075) :info2.UREP
:linkfail.(Dave Eckhardt) DAE@PSUVAX1 ((814) 863-0075)
:planet.EARTH :linkspeed.9600 :linktype.LEASED
:addr.Pennsylvania State University
Department of Computer Science
333 Whitmore Lab
University Park, PA 16802
:lastup.85023
:nick.WISCVM :alias.WISCVM :nodenum.0169 :via.CUNYVM :net.BITNET :gmtoff.
:adjnodes1. :adjtypes1. :aliasnum.
:site.Computer Science Department at Univ. Wisc. at Madison
:abbr.CS Dept. - Univ. Wisc. at Mad.
:system.VM/SP Release 3 :machine.IBM 4341-12 :netsoft.RSCS :msgs.YES :cmds.YES
:files.YES :country.USA :longitude.089W 24 :latitude.043N 04 :connect.84206
:mailer. :postmast.(Dave Ward) WARD@WISCVM ((608) 262-2542)
:gates.ARPA CSNET :mformat.PUNCH :mclass.M :fformat.DISK DUMP :fclass.N
:tformat.NETDATA :tclass.A :bitdirector.
:director.(Dr. Lawrence Landweber) LHL@WISCVM ((608) 263-7442)
:contact.(Dave Ward) WARD@WISCVM ((608) 262-2542)
:inform1.(Dave Ward) WARD@WISCVM ((608) 262-2542) :info1.LINKS RSCS
:inform2.(Marvin Solomon) SOLOMON@UWISC :info2.NODES
:linkfail. :planet.EARTH :linkspeed.9600 :linktype.LEASED
:addr.University of Wisconsin Computer Science Department
1210 West Dayton Street
Madison, WI 53706
:lastup.84334