==Phrack Inc.== Volume Three, Issue 28, File #4 of 12 Network Miscellany ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ by Taran King June 1, 1989 ACSNET ~~~~~~ Australian Computer Science Network (ACSNET), also known as Oz, has its gateway through the CSNET node munnari.oz.au and if you cannot directly mail to the .oz.au domain, try either username%munnari.oz.au@UUNET.UU.NET or munnari!username@UUNET.UU.NET. AT&T MAIL ~~~~~~~~~ AT&T Mail is a mailing service of AT&T, probably what you might call it's MCI-Mail equivalent. It is available on the UUCP network as node name attmail but I've had problems having mail get through. Apparently, it does cost money to mail to this service and the surrounding nodes are not willing to pick up the tab for the ingoing mail, or at least, this has seemingly been the case thus far. I believe, though, that perhaps routing to att!attmail!user would work. AT&T recently announced six new X.400 interconnections between AT&T Mail and electronic mail services in the U.S., Korea, Sweden, Australia, and Finland. In the U.S., AT&T Mail is now interconnected with Telenet Communications Corporation's service, Telemail, allowing users of both services to exchange messages easily. With the addition of these interconnections, the AT&T Mail Gateway 400 Service allows AT&T Mail subscribers to exchange messages with users of the following electronic messaging systems: Company E-Mail Name* Country ------- ------------ ------- TeleDelta TeDe 400 Sweden OTC MPS400 Australia Telecom-Canada Envoy100 Canada DACOM DACOM MHS Korea P&T-Tele MailNet 400 Finland Helsinki Telephone Co. ELISA Finland Dialcom Dialcom USA Telenet Telemail USA KDD Messavia Japan Transpac ATLAS400 France The interconnections are based on the X.400 standard, a set of guidelines for the format, delivery and receipt of electronic messages recommended by an international standards committee the CCITT. International X.400 messages incur a surcharge. They are: To Canada: Per note: $.05 Per message unit: $.10 To other international locations: Per note: $.20 Per message unit: $.50 There is no surcharge for X.400 messages within the U.S. The following are contacts to speak with about mailing through these mentioned networks. Other questions can be directed through AT&T Mail's toll-free number, 1-800-624-5672. MHS Gateway: mhs!atlas MHS Gateway: mhs!dacom Administrator: Bernard Tardieu Administrator: Bob Nicholson Transpac AT&T Phone: 3399283203 Morristown, NJ 07960 Phone: +1 201 644 1838 MHS Gateway: mhs!dialcom MHS Gateway: mhs!elisa Administrator: Mr. Laraman Administrator: Ulla Karajalainen Dialcom Nokia Data South Plainfield, NJ 07080 Phone: 01135804371 Phone: +1 441 493 3843 MHS Gateway: mhs!envoy MHS Gateway: mhs!kdd Administrator: Kin C. Ma Administrator: Shigeo Lwase Telecom Canada Kokusai Denshin Denwa CO. Phone: +1 613 567 7584 Phone: 8133477419 MHS Gateway: mhs!mailnet MHS Gateway: mhs!otc Administrator: Kari Aakala Administrator: Gary W. Krumbine Gen Directorate Of Post & AT&T Information Systems Phone: 35806921730 Lincroft, NJ 07738 Phone: +1 201 576 2658 MHS Gateway: mhs!telemail MHS Gateway: mhs Administrator: Jim Kelsay Administrator: AT&T Mail MHS GTE Telenet Comm Corp Gateway Reston, VA 22096 AT&T Phone: +1 703 689 6034 Lincroft, NJ 08838 Phone: +1 800 624 5672 CMR ~~~ Previously known as Intermail, the Commercial Mail Relay (CMR) Service is a mail relay service between the Internet and three commercial electronic mail systems: US Sprint/Telenet, MCI-Mail, and DIALCOM systems (i.e. Compmail, NSFMAIL, and USDA-MAIL). An important note: The only requirement for using this mail gateway is that the work conducted must be DARPA sponsored research and other approved government business. Basically, this means that unless you've got some government-related business, you're not supposed to be using this gateway. Regardless, it would be very difficult for them to screen everything that goes through their gateway. Before I understood the requirements of this gateway, I was sending to a user of MCI-Mail and was not contacted about any problems with that communication. Unfortunately, I mistyped the MCI-Mail address on one of the letters and that letter ended up getting read by system administrators who then informed me that I was not to be using that system, as well as the fact that they would like to bill me for using it. That was an interesting thought on their part anyway, but do note that using this service does incur charges. The CMR mailbox address in each system corresponds to the label: Telemail: [Intermail/USCISI]TELEMAIL/USA MCI-Mail: Intermail or 107-8239 CompMail: Intermail or CMP0817 NSF-Mail: Intermail or NSF153 USDA-Mail: Intermail or AGS9999 Addressing examples for each e-mail system are as follows: MCIMAIL: 123-4567 seven digit address Everett T. Bowens person's name (must be unique!) COMPMAIL: CMP0123 three letters followed by three or four digits S.Cooper initial, then "." and then last name 134:CMP0123 domain, then ":" and then combination system and account number NSFMAIL: NSF0123 three letters followed by three or four digits A.Phillips initial, then "." and then last name 157:NSF0123 domain, then ":" and then combination system and account number USDAMAIL: AGS0123 three letters followed by three or four digits P.Shifter initial, then "." and then last name 157:AGS0123 domain, then ":" and then combination system and account number TELEMAIL: BARNOC user (directly on Telemail) BARNOC/LODH user/organization (directly on Telemail) [BARNOC/LODH]TELEMAIL/USA [user/organization]system branch/country The following are other Telenet system branches/countries that can be mailed to: TELEMAIL/USA NASAMAIL/USA MAIL/USA TELEMEMO/AUSTRALIA TELECOM/CANADA TOMMAIL/CHILE TMAILUK/GB ITALMAIL/ITALY ATI/JAPAN PIPMAIL/ROC DGC/USA FAAMAIL/USA GSFC/USA GTEMAIL/USA TM11/USA TNET.TELEMAIL/USA USDA/USA Note: OMNET's ScienceNet is on the Telenet system MAIL/USA and to mail to it, the format would be [A.MAILBOX/OMNET]MAIL/USA. The following are available subdivisions of OMNET: AIR Atmospheric Sciences EARTH Solid Earth Sciences LIFE Life Sciences OCEAN Ocean Sciences POLAR Interdisciplinary Polar Studies SPACE Space Science and Remote Sensing The following is a list of DIALCOM systems available in the listed countries with their domain and system numbers: Service Name Country Domain Number System Number ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Keylink-Dialcom Australia 60 07, 08, 09 Dialcom Canada 20 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 DPT Databoks Denmark 124 71 Telebox Finland 127 62 Telebox West Germany 30 15, 16 Dialcom Hong Kong 80 88, 89 Eirmail Ireland 100 74 Goldnet Israel 50 05, 06 Mastermail Italy 130 65, 67 Mastermail Italy 1 66, 68 Dialcom Japan 70 13, 14 Dialcom Korea 1 52 Telecom Gold Malta 100 75 Dialcom Mexico 1 52 Memocom Netherlands 124 27, 28, 29 Memocom Netherlands 1 55 Starnet New Zealand 64 01, 02 Dialcom Puerto Rico 58 25 Telebox Singapore 88 10, 11, 12 Dialcom Taiwan 1 52 Telecom Gold United Kingdom 100 01, 04, 17, 80-89 DIALCOM USA 1 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 37, 38, 41-59, 61, 62, 63, 90-99 NOTE: You can also mail to username@NASAMAIL.NASA.GOV or username@GSFCMAIL.NASA.GOV instead of going through the CMR gateway to mail to NASAMAIL or GSFCMAIL. For more information and instructions on how to use CMR, send a message to the user support group at intermail-request@intermail.isi.edu (you'll get basically what I've listed plus maybe a bit more). Please read Chapter 3 of The Future Transcendent Saga (Limbo to Infinity) for specifics on mailing to these destination mailing systems. COMPUSERVE ~~~~~~~~~~ CompuServe is well known for its games and conferences. It does, though, have mailing capability. Now, they have developed their own Internet domain, called COMPUSERVE.COM. It is relatively new and mail can be routed through either TUT.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU or NORTHWESTERN.ARPA. Example: user%COMPUSERVE.COM@TUT.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU or replace TUT.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU with NORTHWESTERN.ARPA). The CompuServe link appears to be a polled UUCP connection at the gateway machine. It is actually managed via a set of shell scripts and a comm utility called xcomm, which operates via command scripts built on the fly by the shell scripts during analysis of what jobs exist to go into and out of CompuServe. CompuServe subscriber accounts of the form 7xxxx,yyyy can be addressed as 7xxxx.yyyy@compuserve.com. CompuServe employees can be addressed by their usernames in the csi.compuserve.com subdomain. CIS subscribers write mail to ">inet:user@host.domain" to mail to users on the Wide-Area Networks, where ">gateway:" is CompuServe's internal gateway access syntax. The gateway generates fully-RFC-compliant headers. To fully extrapolate -- from the CompuServe side, you would use their EasyPlex mail system to send mail to someone in BITNET or the Internet. For example, to send me mail at my Bitnet id, you would address it to: INET:C488869%UMCVMB.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Or to my Internet id: INET:C488869@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU Now, if you have a BITNET to Internet userid, this is a silly thing to do, since your connect time to CompuServe costs you money. However, you can use this information to let people on CompuServe contact YOU. CompuServe Customer Service says that there is no charge to either receive or send a message to the Internet or BITNET. DASNET ~~~~~~ DASnet is a smaller network that connects to the Wide-Area Networks but charges for their service. DASnet subscribers get charged for both mail to users on other networks AND mail for them from users of other networks. The following is a brief description of DASnet, some of which was taken from their promotional text letter. DASnet allows you to exchange electronic mail with people on more than 20 systems and networks that are interconnected with DASnet. One of the drawbacks, though, is that, after being subscribed to these services, you must then subscribe to DASnet, which is a separate cost. Members of Wide-Area networks can subscribe to DASnet too. Some of the networks and systems reachable through DASnet include the following: ABA/net, ATT Mail, BIX (Byte Information eXchange), DASnet Network, Dialcom, EIES, EasyLink, Envoy 100, FAX, GeoMail, INET, MCI Mail, NWI, PeaceNet/EcoNet, Portal Communications, The Meta Network, The Source, Telemail, ATI's Telemail (Japan), Telex, TWICS (Japan), UNISON, UUCP, The WELL, and Domains (i.e. ".COM" and ".EDU" etc.). New systems are added all of the time. As of the writing of this file, Connect, GoverNET, MacNET, and The American Institute of Physics PI-MAIL are soon to be connected. You can get various accounts on DASnet including: o Corporate Accounts -- If your organization wants more than one individual subscription. o Site Subscriptions -- If you want DASnet to link directly to your organization's electronic mail system. To send e-mail through DASnet, you send the message to the DASnet account on your home system. You receive e-mail at your mailbox, as you do now. On the Wide-Area Networks, you send mail to XB.DAS@STANFORD.BITNET. On the Subject: line, you type the DASnet address in brackets and then the username just outside of them. The real subject can be expressed after the username separated by a "!" (Example: Subject: [0756TK]randy!How's Phrack?). The only disadvantage of using DASnet as opposed to Wide-Area networks is the cost. Subscription costs as of 3/3/89 cost $4.75 per month or $5.75 per month for hosts that are outside of the U.S.A. You are also charged for each message that you send. If you are corresponding with someone who is not a DASnet subscriber, THEIR MAIL TO YOU is billed to your account. The following is an abbreviated cost list for mailing to the different services of DASnet: PARTIAL List DASnet Cost DASnet Cost of Services 1st 1000 Each Add'l 1000 Linked by DASnet (e-mail) Characters Characters: INET, MacNET, PeaceNet, NOTE: 20 lines Unison, UUCP*, Domains, .21 .11 of text is app. e.g. .COM, .EDU* 1000 characters. Dialcom--Any "host" in U.S. .36 .25 Dialcom--Hosts outside U.S. .93 .83 EasyLink (From EasyLink) .21 .11 (To EasyLink) .55 .23 U.S. FAX (internat'l avail.) .79 .37 GeoMail--Any "host" in U.S. .21 .11 GeoMail--Hosts outside U.S. .74 .63 MCI (from MCI) .21 .11 (to MCI) .78 .25 (Paper mail - USA) 2.31 .21 Telemail .36 .25 W.U. Telex--United States 1.79 1.63 (You can also send Telexes outside the U.S.) TWICS--Japan .89 .47 * The charges given here are to the gateway to the network. The DASnet user is not charged for transmission on the network itself. Subscribers to DASnet get a free DASnet Network Directory as well as a listing in the directory, and the ability to order optional DASnet services like auto-porting or DASnet Telex Service which gives you your own Telex number and answerback for $8.40 a month at this time. DASnet is a registered trademark of DA Systems, Inc. DA Systems, Inc. 1503 E. Campbell Ave. Campbell, CA 95008 408-559-7434 TELEX: 910 380-3530 The following two sections on PeaceNet and AppleLink are in association with DASnet as this network is what is used to connect them to the Wide-Area Networks. APPLELINK ~~~~~~~~~ AppleLink is a service of Apple Computer. They have their own little network and there are a couple of things to know about it. First of all, there is an AppleLink-Bitnet Mail Relay which was created to "enrich the cooperative research relationship of Apple Computer and the higher education community by facilitating the electronic exchange of information." Any Bitnet user is automatically authorized to use the mail relay as well as all AppleLink users. To send to AppleLink from Bitnet, your header should be as follows: To: XB.DAS@STANFORD.BITNET Subject: username@APPLELINK!Hi, how are things at Apple? The username is the user's ID that you are sending to and the "!" separates the DASnet To: field from the real subject. To send to Bitnet from AppleLink, your header should be as follows: To: DASNET Subject: C488869@UMCVMB.BITNET!Please add me to the Phrack Subscription List. The C488869@UMCVMB.BITNET (my address) is any Bitnet address and as above, the "!" separates the address from the subject of the message. There is one other thing to mention. Apparently, sending to username@APPLELINK.APPLE.COM also will perform the same function. If this does not work, try routing to username%APPLELINK.APPLE.COM@APPLE.COM. PEACENET ~~~~~~~~ PeaceNet is a computer-based communication system "helping the peace movement throughout the world communicate and cooperate more effectively and efficiently," according to their information flier. It is networked through Telenet and can be reached via dial-up. To subscribe to this service, it costs $10 to sign up. With this sign-up fee, you receive a user's manual and a "free" hour of off-peak computer time (which is weekday evenings, weekends, and holidays). Beyond this, you pay a monthly $10 fee for another hour of off-peak computer usage and you pay $5 for additional PEAK hour usage. They charge, also, for users who require extra space on their system. I guess peace carries a heavy cost in the long run! You do get 2 free hours of off-peak time though for every additional user you bring to PeaceNet. It is a project of the Tides Foundation, a San Franciscan public charity, and is managed by 3 national peace organizations (non-profit, of course!). Anyway, to join PeaceNet, send your name, organizational affiliation, address, city, state, zip code, telephone number, and who referred you to PeaceNet as well as your credit card number with expiration date (and the name on the card if it's different than yours) to PeaceNet, 3228 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, CA 94115 or call them at 415-923-0900. You can also pay by check but that requires a $50 deposit. FIDONET ~~~~~~~ FIDONET is, of course, the ever-popular group of IBM bulletin boards that made it possible for networking to be incorporated into bulletin board systems. FIDONET seems to have a number of gateways in the Wide-Area Networks. First of all, it has its own domain -- .ifna.org -- which makes it possible to mail right to FIDONET without routing through UUCP gateways or whatever. The format for this gateway is: Username@f.n.z.ifna.org In other words, if I wanted to mail to Silicon Swindler at 1:135/5, the address would be Silicon_Swindler@f5.n135.z1.ifna.org and, provided that your mailer knows the .ifna.org domain, it should get through alright. Apparently, as of the writing of this article, they have implemented a new gateway name called fidonet.org which should work in place of ifna.org in all routings. If your mailer does not know either of these domains, use the above routing but replace the first "@" with a "%" and then afterwards, use either of the following mailers after the "@": CS.ORST.EDU or K9.CS.ORST.EDU (i.e. username%f.n.z.fidonet.org@CS.ORST.EDU [or replace CS.ORST.EDU with K9.CS.ORST.EDU]). The following is a list compiled by Bill Fenner (WCF@PSUECL.BITNET) that was posted on INFONETS DIGEST which lists a number of FIDONET gateways: Net Node Node Name ~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ 104 56 milehi.ifna.org 105 55 casper.ifna.org 107 320 rubbs.ifna.org 109 661 blkcat.ifna.org 125 406 fidogate.ifna.org 128 19 hipshk.ifna.org 129 65 insight.ifna.org 143 N/A fidogate.ifna.org 152 200 castle.ifna.org 161 N/A fidogate.ifna.org 369 17 megasys.ifna.org NOTE: The UUCP equivalent node name is the first part of the node name. In other words, the UUCP node milehi is listed as milehi.ifna.org but can be mailed directly over the UUCP network. Another way to mail to FIDONET, specifically for Internet people, is in this format: ihnp4!necntc!ncoast!ohiont!!!user_name@husc6.harvard.edu And for those UUCP mailing people out there, just use the path described and ignore the @husc5.harvard.edu portion. There is a FIDONET NODELIST available on most any FIDONET bulletin board, but it is quite large. ONTYME ~~~~~~ Previously known as Tymnet, OnTyme is the McDonnell Douglas revision. After they bought out Tymnet, they renamed the company and opened an experimental Internet gateway at ONTYME.TYMNET.COM but this is supposedly only good for certain corporate addresses within McDonnell Douglas and Tymnet, not their customers. The userid format is xx.yyy or xx.y/yy where xx is a net name and yyy (or y/yy) is a true username. If you cannot directly nail this, try: xx.yyy%ONTYME.TYMNET.COM@TYMIX.TYMNET.COM A subnet of Tymnet is called GeoNet. It is a private X.25-based subnet that is operated by the U.S. Geological Survey, a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Interior. It supports about 165 host computers including about 75 USGS Primes, 50 VAXen, and 2 Amdahls. One of their VAX systems is on BITnet at USGSRESV and they have SPAN nodes at IFLAG1.SPAN and EROSA.SPAN. THENET ~~~~~~ The Texas Higher Education Network (THEnet) is comprised of many of the institutions of higher education in the state of Texas. Its backbone network protocol is DECnet. THEnet has recently been designated as an NSF regional network, distributing Internet Protocol (IP) access over DECnet in some cases and utilizing multi-protocol routers in others. THEnet has a NIC (Network Information Center) at THENIC.THE.NET and addresses within THEnet are probably routed to user@destination.THE.NET. UUCP PATHS AND NODE INFORMATION ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Many UUCP Unix nodes have the commands uuhosts and uupath. The uuhosts command allows you to receive information about a specified UUCP node such as the path, node contact, how it is polled for USENET feeds, etc. The uupath command simply tells you the path from one UUCP node to another. Well, although at this time, this is only good for Bitnet users, this interactive message feature is good to know just in case you need to know a path to a particular node. For IBM systems using RSCS network software, use the command SM RSCS CMD PSUVAX1 UUPATH node1 node2 ... (For people on VAXen with JNET network software, the format is: ) (SEND/COMMAND PSUVAX1 UUPATH node1 ) to receive standard information listed above from the uupath command. Multiple nodes can be listed where node1 node2 represent separate UUCP nodes. I've found that this can be useful in finding surrounding nodes of the destination node in case you have a problem mailing through a particular path or node. You can, with this command, use alternate routings by specifying them with a "bang-path" that will indicate to the UUCP gateway where the message is to be sent to next. This is in the format of, say, "psuvax1!catch22!msp!taran@UUCPGATE" or whatever where UUCPGATE can be any UUCP gateway such as PSUVAX1 or UUNET.UU.NET to name a few. NICS ~~~~ The Network Information Centers (NICs) can be extremely useful in figuring out various problems on the networks, such as routings or the place at which the node resides, etc. BITNIC is the BITnet Network Information Center which is located in New Jersey. Its node name is BITNIC.BITNET and it contains a variety of resources which can be utilized via mail or via direct messages from Bitnet users. The DATABASE@BITNIC contains lists of all kinds. This database does not limit itself to information about the networks. It does contain this information, but also holds various trivialities. Send the HELP command either via direct message to DATABASE@BITNIC if on Bitnet or send mail to that address containing the command you wish to perform (i.e. send a message saying HELP to DATABASE@BITNIC.BITNET from another network or from Bitnet if you're at a node without direct message capabilities). LISTSERV@BITNIC contains the standard listserver files that you'd expect to find plus some other interesting ones. I'm not going to take the time to tutor you, the reader, in using these, so just send a HELP command the same as you would to DATABASE@BITNIC for more information. NETSERV@BITNIC is a file server which contains information files pertaining to various networks that are connected to Bitnet, as well as files about Bitnet. From here, you can get network node lists, information files on networks such as SPAN, ARPANET, NETNORTH, etc. and other network related files. This can be an extremely useful resource when you're trying to mail someone at another network. The Data Defense Network NIC (DDN NIC) is located at SRI-NIC.ARPA and has various useful files about the DDN as well as the Internet. There are a number of ways to obtain information from the DDN NIC. First of all, people on the Internet with the Telnet capability can Telnet to SRI-NIC.ARPA and perform a number of procedures from the pre-login screen. First of all, you can get TAC News updates by typing TACNEWS. The NIC command allows you to find various facts about the whereabouts of network information files, etc. The WHOIS command is probably the most useful of these 3. The WHOIS program allows you to find addresses for registered users of the networks as well as information about networks and nodes on the networks, depending on what you ask the WHOIS program for. To find only a certain record type, you can use the following specifiers: Arpanet DOmain GAteway GRoup HOst IMp Milnet NEtwork Organization PSn TAc To search for a specific field, use the following specifiers: HAndle or "!" Mailbox or if it contains "@" NAme or a "." leading These features return whatever information is available from the DDN NIC database. If you do not have the capability to use Telnet, mail can be sent to SERVICE@SRI-NIC.ARPA with the "SUBJECT:" line containing the following commands: HELP This will send you a help file for using the DDN NIC. RFC nnn This sends you a Request For Comments file (where nnn is either the number of the RFC file or else is INDEX to list them). IEN nnn This sends you an Internet Engineering Notes file where nnn is the same as above. NETINFO xxx This feature allows you to get files about the networks where xxx is the filename or else the word INDEX for a list of available files. HOST xxx This returns information pertaining to the xxx host specified. WHOIS xxx This is the same as using the WHOIS command from Telnet. For details on how to use this, send the WHOIS HELP command on the "Subject:" line. There are other Network Information Centers throughout the networks but as far as I know, their abilities are nothing near as powerful as SRI-NIC.ARPA. They are the places, though, to mail to for answers concerning those networks if you have some question as to the workings of the network or anything else. _______________________________________________________________________________