Path: nntp-server.caltech.edu!news.claremont.edu!uunet!portal!sdd.hp.com!network.ucsd.edu!ucsbcsl!ucsbuxa!lb05gate From: lb05gate@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Rick Gates) Newsgroups: alt.internet.services Subject: May Hunt Results Message-ID: <8694@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> Date: 20 May 93 18:05:12 GMT Sender: root@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu Lines: 1073 ***************************************************************** * * * THE INTERNET HUNT RESULTS * * * * * * FOR MAY, 1993 * * * * (total lines: 1067) * ***************************************************************** Well, we have a couple of first time winners in both categories. In the individual category, the winner of the May Hunt was: Brian LaMacchia Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. ...who scored a perfect 44 points in an entry dated Tue, 4 May 93 21:00:53 -0400 ...and the winners in the team category are: The Delphi Internet Hunt Team @delphi.com ...who also scored a perfect 44 points in an entry dated Date: 04 May 1993 20:59:48 -0400 (EDT) HUNT STATS ---------- I received a total of 16 entries this time around, 4 were from teams. I'm also posting percentages with each question. This value represents the percentage of all participants that got full points for that question. Let's see how that works. I've also received requests for the posting of histograms of everyone's results. While useful, I don't want to discourage anyone either. After all, this is hard stuff for a novice. Anyway, let me know what you think. HUNT COMMENTS ------------- The new InterNIC is beginning to get up to speed. I'm already a frequent user, and several Hunters are taking advantage as well. It'll be interesting to see how it goes. Here's a plug for a new list called Net-Happenings, run by Gleason Sackman. Gleason's been a faithful reporter of network goings-on for some time now. The list will distribute info on tools, conferences, calls-for-papers, news items, etc. Subscribe by sending the message subscribe net-happenings Your Name to listserv@is.internic.net 'Nuff said! I need to get going on my vacation. 10 days in Oregon! YES!!! THE HUNT RESULTS ---------------- 1. (5)(75%) What are the assignments for the Medical and Biological portions of the "Final Exam"? ----- Gopher to gopher.tc.umn.edu -> 8. Other gophers ... -> 2. Search titles ... veronica -> 1. search gopherspace ... CNIDR enter final exam at the prompt [select from results whose title is exactly "Final Exam"] ---------- relevent contents of final exam ---------- FINAL EXAM ... Medicine: You have been provided with a razor blade, a piece of gauze, and a bottle of scotch. Remove your appendix. Do not suture until you work has been inspected. You have fifteen minutes. ... Biology: Create life. Estimate the differences in subsequent human culture if this form of life had developed 500 million years earlier, with special attention to its probable effect on the English Parliamentary System. Prove your thesis. ... ----------------------------------------------------- [From: Peter Marks, NCR Seattle Technology Center, Woodinville, Washington, U.S.A] ====================================================================== 2. (6)(69%) I've seen copies of a discussion on an electronic mailing list called UNITE. What does UNITE stand for, and how do I become a member of this discussion? [Rick: I wanted folks in the States to realize that there is another whole group of mail-lists outside Bitnet listserv and Internet mail-reflectors. Note that as is sometimes the case in the Nets, one can find info that is not quite correct. Unite was at one time designated a closed list, and therefor subscriptions were handled differently than they are today. However because at the time of the Hunt, some files still carried the closed designation, both forms of subscription gained full credit. ----- From our local Gopher: (gopher.csc.liv.ac.uk) Other Gopher servers UK Gopher servers JANET News ADDRESSES -JANET Addresses, NRS info, Site info, Mail info Mail distribution lists Mailbase mailing lists Towards the end, this has: unite [CLOSED] UNITE is an acronym for User Network Interface To Everything. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This list is a focus for discussion on the concept of a total solution interface with user friendly, desktop-integrated, access to ALL network services. Information exchange on existing systems which approach this ideal is encouraged. Right at the start it says: To join a list marked CLOSED, send mail to the list-owner ( -request@uk.ac.mailbase ) where is the list you wish to join. so send mail to "unite-request@mailbase.ac.uk" asking to join. [From Dave Shield, Liverpool University, Liverpool, England] ----- UNITE stands for "User Network Interface To Everything" To join the list send a message to: mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk containing the line: join unite The list was started by members of the European RARE (Reseaux Associes pour la Recherche Europeenne) working group on Information Services and User Support (wg-isus), as part of a task force to survey 'total solution user interfaces'. To find this info, search archie on the key "unite". It has a bunch of matches, including the following: Host ftp.germany.eu.net (192.76.144.75) Last updated 06:37 2 May 1993 Location: /documents/rare/archive/wg-isus DIRECTORY drwxr-xr-x 512 bytes 06:29 30 Mar 1993 tf-unite anonymous ftp to ftp.germany.eu.net, cd /pub/documents/rare/archive/ws-isus/tf-unite get mail-list The file "mail-list" contains the announcement of the UNITE mailing lists and the instructions on how to be added to the discussion. [From Brian LaMacchia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.] ----- anonymous ftp to ftp.nisc.sri.com get netinfo/interest-groups.Z (or without the .Z, if you have time, and not uncompress) uncompress the file, and notice... IT'S NOT THERE!!! DOH!!!! But... I found it!!!! gopher cwis.ucs.mun.ca 11. Venturing into the Internet/ 8. Wide Area Information Servers/ 3. b/ 27. bit.listserv.pacs-l.src Search for: UNITE 1. Ge Re: Invitation to join UNITE discussion list .... |UNITE is an acronym for User Network Interface To Everything. The |purpose of the list is to act as a focus for discussion related to |the general theme of one interface to all network services. |To join the list send a message to: | |mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk | |containing the line: | |join unite [From Ian Goldberg, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada] =============================================================== 3. (3)(69%) What is the FAX number for the Escola Tecnica Superior d'Enginyers de Telecomunicacio de Barcelona, at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in Spain? [Rick: Most people used a gopher X.500 gateway. There was a problem with the hostname, and some found a good work-around (as below). It appears to now be fixed.] ----- Gopher to gopher.uji.es [directly, or through your favorite other-gopher/europe/spain path] -> 6. Directori de noms ... -> 3. X.500 Espanya/Spain -> 107. Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya -> 63. Escola Tecnica Superior Politecnica de Catalunya ... -> 7. BIBLIOTECA [for example] --------- X.500 entry ---------- "BIBLIOTECA, Escola Tecnica Superior ... cn BIBLIOTECA sn BIBLIOTECA postalAddress U.P.C. ETSETB Campus Nord-Edifici TL C/ Jordi Girona Salgado, s/n 08071 BARCELONA telephoneNumber +34 3 4016800 telexNumber 97239 $ E $ UPCTX facsimileTelephoneNumber +34 3 4016801 mail BIBLIOTECA@ETSETB.UPC.ES --------------------------------- The facsimileTelephoneNumber is the same for all departments of ETSEPB, so the library entry seemed like the most appropriate to retrieve. [Note that there was a problem actually executing this procedure. UJI's X.500 server is hosted on a machine called pereiii.uji.es, but the gopher entries have only the local part (pereiii) stored, so a foreign gopher client doesn't know the host. My workaround was to (recursively) save each broken entry as a bookmark, quit gopher, edit my .gopherrc to change pereiii to pereiii.uji.es, restart gopher, and use the modified entry.] [From: Peter Marks, NCR Seattle Technology Center, Woodinville, Washington, U.S.A] ================================================================= 4. (8)(69%) What is the post code for Daly Waters, Northern Territory, Australia? [Rick: Thought I had a tough one here as I found the 'finger database' from Univ. of Sydney, but didn't find anything on the Sydney gopher or some of the others in Australia. In restrospect, this should have been about a 3 or 4 point question.] ----- One of the services on Yanoff's Internet services list is a finger-based database server in Australia (sounds hopeful:-). Giving it a try, finger help@dir.su.edu.au returns ---------- result of finger ----------- [extra.ucc.su.oz.au] **** This is an experimental service offerred free of charge by **** **** The University Computing Service, University of Sydney. **** **** Please mail support@is.su.edu.au if you have any queries. **** Finger offers these additional services: - Access to a database facility Usage: finger %@dir.su.edu.au is usually an "egrep" regular expression and can be: ... postcodes - Australian Postcodes [aha!] ... ------------------------------------------ finger daly%postcodes@dir.su.edu.au ---------- result of finger ----------- [extra.ucc.su.oz.au] ... 5780 Daly Waters [From: Peter Marks, NCR Seattle Technology Center, Woodinville, Washington, U.S.A] ----- This one was a lot of fun. Every search I did on "Daly" gave me lists of aboriginal studies, so I went directly to the place where these were stored, to see if they might have more on Daly Waters. The long menu made me suspicious, so I checked it out, and ouila! gopher osprey.erin.gov.au --> 14. Very Long Menu - see more levels (2-3) with a single fetch/ --> 163. Australian Postcodes/ --> 2. Look Up a Postcode Words to search for daly | --> 2. 5780 Daly Waters. [From Mark Edwards @delphi.com] ----- Answer: Daly Waters postal code is 5780. Method: Telnet to the gopher at info.anu.edu.au. Login as "info" Select services at other institutions; select Australian services; select Australian National Botanical Gardens; select contacts address, telephones for the ANBG; select Australian post codes; select look up post code; search Daly Waters. [From VC/UHV Librarians Team, Victoria College/University of Houston-Victoria, Victoria, Texas, U.S.A] =================================================================== 5. (2)(88%) Who said "What is the use of a book ... without pictures and conversations?" ----- Alice said this in chapter one of _Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_. I discovered this (well, actually I already knew), by telnetting to info.rutgers.edu, and selecting the options for LIBRARY and then REFERENCE and the FAMILIAR quotations. I entered the search "pictures" and got back a list of citations, including one labelled "carroll1#14". A second search for "carroll1#14" calls up the complete quotation. Of course, the complete text of the book is available various ways over the net from Project Gutenberg. One way to get it is anonymous ftp from mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu; it appears as "~/etext/etext91/alice29.txt". [From Thomas Dowling, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.] ====================================================================== 6. (5)(81%) I'm writing a paper about how wars conclude. Could you tell me where I can find the terms of the Japanese and German surrenders at the conclusion of World War II? ----- Point or telnet to the Infoslug gopher at scilibx.ucsc.edu. Select in turn: 7. The Library/ 3. Electronic Books and Other Texts/ 19. Historical Documents/ 13. German Surrender. and 18. Japanese Surrender. [From the Delphi Internet Hunt Team @delphi.com] ----- telnet twosocks.ces.ncsu.edu login gopher choice 7, NCSU Library's Gopher Server choice 7, NCSU's " Library Without Walls " choice 6, The Stacks Answer: choice 51, German-Surrender choice 61, Japanese-Surrender [From TwoSocks Team, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.A.] ====================================================================== 7. (3)(56%) I've heard there's a hot new book available called "A Student's Guide to Unix", that can be ordered over the Nets. Where do I order it from, and how much will it cost me? [Rick: On this one I was wondering if any of the Hunters knew about the new InterNIC Store on the gopher at gopher.internic.net.] ----- Answer (gevans@panix.com, des@panix.com): $25 ($26.94 in California)- order from InterNIC Information Services. Initial lead from (of course) the Yanoff list. /> telnet rs.internic.net Trying 198.41.0.5 ... Connected to rs.internic.net. Escape character is '^]'. SunOS UNIX (rs) (ttyp6) *************************************************************************** * -- InterNIC Registration Services Center -- * For gopher, type: GOPHER * For wais, type: WAIS * For the *original* whois type: WHOIS [search string] * For the X.500 whois DUA, type: X500WHOIS * For registration status: STATUS * For user assistance call (800) 444-4345 | (619-455-4600 or (703) 742-4777 * Please report system problems to ACTION@rs.internic.net *************************************************************************** [vt100] InterNIC > gopher Root gopher server: rs.internic.net --> 2. InterNIC Information Services (General Atomics)/ --> 9. Search InfoSource by providing Keyword KEYWORD "book" --> 7. How to Order Books. This section is from the document '/infosource/about_information_services/ shopping/order_forms/book_order'. For your convenience, InterNIC Information Services provides a bookstore of Internet books. These books will be sent to you usually within 14 days of your order. To order any of the books using Mastercard or Visa, you can email this form to yourself and email a completed version to order@is.internic.net or call 1-800-444-4345 and chose the option "Information Services". Checks or Purchase Orders must be sent to: InterNIC Information Services General Atomics P.O. Box 85608 San Diego, CA 92186-9784 Attention: Order Desk Checks and purchase orders should be made payable to General Atomics. ________________Form Starts Here____________________________________ -- Hit SPACEBAR Name: Delivery Address: City, State, Zip Code: Telephone Number or Email address: Credit Card Type: Credit Card Number: Expiration Date: Books Ordered: Price Copies Total The Internet Companion $10.00 The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog $24.00 A Student's Guide to Unix $25.00 TCP/IP Network Administration $27.00 Smileys $ 5.00 Campus Strategies for Libraries $31.00 Exploring the Internet: A Technical Travelogue $26.00 Zen and the Art of the Internet (Book) $22.00 Zen and the Art of the Internet (Net Version) $ 7.50 -- Hit SPACEBAR Subtotal Sales Tax (7.75% for California Deliveries) Shipping and Handling (FREE) [From Team.Panix, Panix Public Access Unix, New York, New York, U.S.A.] ----- [Rick Adolph Hildebrand shows some perseverence here.] Answer: The price of the book is $24.95; it can be ordered by email from Quantum Books at quanbook@world.std.com. Search strategy: As a 3 point problem, this should have been easy, so my approach is probably unnecessarily complicated. I knew about online bookstores operating on the Internet (a list of such stores is in the misc.books.technical FAQ file, which is excerpted below), but couldn't find the book in any of the booklists offered online by these bookstores. However, according to the FAQ file of Quantum Books (excerpted below), any book in print in the U.S. can be ordered from them by email. Thus, to get the complete answer to the question, it remained to find some bibliographical information and price info for the book. First, I checked the "Concise Guide to Unix Books" (available through anonymous ftp at pit-manager.mit.edu as file pub/usenet/news.answers/books/unix). This did contain a brief reference to the book in question, but did not give full bibliographical information and the price of the book, presumably because the book just came out . After several hours of fruitless searching, I finally hit upon a reference in the catalog of the Stanford University Bookstore (which is one of the technical bookstores listed in the FAQ file for the newsgroup misc.books.technical) on the Stanford University Gopher: gopher to gopher-server.stanford.edu select 5. Other Gophers at Stanford/ 4. Experimental Folio Gopher/ 2. Search these menus : search for term "bookstore" 1. Stanford Bookstore: Catalog of the Stanford Bookstore/ 4. TITLE - TITLE, any words : search for "guide unix" 10. Student's Guide to Unix. By: Hahn($24.95) This brings up bibliographical information for the book, including its price. AUTHOR: Hahn TITLE: Student's Guide to Unix IMPRINT: Mcgraw Hill Book Company, 1989. (Hardback. ISBN:0-07-025511-3) PRICE: $24.95 SUBJECT: Operating Systems LOCATION: Campus, General Books (Operating Systems Including Unix and X Windows) - May be in stock. Technical-Professional Branch, 135 University Ave. (Operating Systems) - May be in stock. I was not quite sure if this is the right item, as the title is given as "Student's Guide to Unix", not "A Student's Guide to Unix", and the publication year is listed as 1989, so I figured this might be an earlier edition of the book in question. A search on the MELVYL online library indeed brought up a 1993 book with the latter title. However, it didn't show any earlier editions of that book. Also, the ISBN number is identical to the one given in the reference in the "Concise Guide to Unix Books" mentioned above. Therefore, I guess (hope?) that the title and publication year in the Stanford catalog are erroneous. [From Adolph Hildebrand, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, U.S.A.] ----- [Both Peter Marks and Adolph Hildebrand pointed out the following info:] To find a list of book dealers who have net addresses, ftp anonymously to the Usenet FAQ archive at pit-manager.mit.edu, and enter the commands: cd /pub/usenet/misc.books.technical mget *F_A_Q* This retrieves an ASCII file (with an unrepeatable name:-) of answers to frequently-asked questions, including the following list: ---------- bookstores with net addresses ---------- ... 4) Email addresses / phone numbers of technical bookstores (just in case your city doesn't have a good bookstore) Computer Literacy Bookshop, San Jose, CA, 408-435-5017, Fax: 408-435-1823, orders@clbooks.com, service@clbooks.com, info@clbooks.com Quantum Books, Cambridge, MA, 617-494-5042, Fax: 617-577-7282 quanbook@world.std.com Wordsworth Books, Cambridge MA, 800-899-2202, 617-354-4223, Fax: 617-354-4674, 73457.315@compuserve.com SSC, Seattle, WA, 206-367-8649, FAX: 206-527-2806, salex@ssc.com Softpro, Burlington, MA, 617-2730-2917, Fax: 617-273-2499, softpro@world.std.com TECHbooks Beaverton, OR, bip@techbook.com (send the word "help" in the subject line) Stanford University Bookstore, bookstore@sierra.stanford.edu [From: Peter Marks, NCR Seattle Technology Center, Woodinville, Washington, U.S.A] ================================================================= 8. (3)(81%) Where can I find a review of the book "Virtual Reality" by Howard Rheingold? How much does it cost? ----- It costs $22.95 telnet pac.carl.org After choosing your terminal type and reaching the database menu goto: 3. Information Databases (including Encyclopedia) 60. Choice Book Reviews Enter N for NAME search At the prompt, type: Rheingold Then choose the following entry: 2 Rheingold howard 1991 Virtual reality. - [From Alvin Vitangcol, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan, U.S.A.] ----- Gopher to ftp.cc.utexas.edu (port 3003): pub output Virtual Reality Space A Virtual Reference from sci.virtual-worlds ARCHIVE <-GOOD STUFF faq publications VirtualReality This starts: Submitted to "Institute of Noetic Sciences Review" Review of Howard Rheingold's Virtual Reality Charles T. Tart As for cost, go back to Q7: Other Gopher servers North America USA General The World (Public Access Unix) Book Sellers SoftPro booklist (have patience - it's big!) includes: ISBN Author Title Retail ---- ------ ----- ------ 0671693638 Rheingold Virtual Reality 22.95 ^^^^^ (Dollars presumably) [From Dave Shield, Liverpool University, Liverpool, England] ================================================================ 9. (6)(75%) I've heard of an interesting plant, a sort of very large shrub-like tree called the Sticky Wattle. What is the genus and species for this plant? [Rick: This question was contributed by Jim Croft of the Australian National Botanical Gardens, who's name I did not give out prior to this for the obvious reasons... :-) ] ----- [Rick: You all know I love searches that use more than one resource. Use that Net!] From our local Gopher: (gopher.csc.liv.ac.uk) Other Gopher servers UK Gopher servers Imperial College, London Library Services, References and Dictionaries Webster's Dictionary (Rutgers - Experimental) Libraries, information resources, reference material Online dictionary and other reference material Dictionary, thesaurus, book of quotations, and CIA World Factbook Lookup word in the Concise Oxford Dictionary, 8th Edition Search on "wattle", gives: /wattle/1 <<"wQt(@)l>> n. & v. n. 2. [Bot]an Australian acacia with long pliant branches, with bark used in tanning and golden flowers used as the national emblem. OK, so it's an Australian acacia. Back to our local root, and: Other Gopher servers Other Gopher and Information Servers Pacific Australian National Botanic Gardens ANBG Information Services ANBG IBIS Database Gateways Common Names of Australian Plants Search Common Names File Search on "wattle", gives: Sticky wattle : Acacia howittii [From Dave Shield, Liverpool University, Liverpool, England] ----- telnet scilibx.ucsc.edu login: gopher goto: 8. The Researcher/ 4. Science and Engineering/ 2. Biology and Life Sciences/ 16. UCSC Biology Board Information/ 2. Genbank, PIR, Swiss_PROT and other Database Searches/ 9. National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS)/ 3. Plant Taxonomy/ 2. Search GRIN NPGS Taxonomy Index word(s) to search for: sticky and wattle 1. Acacia howittii F. Muell.. [From Alvin Vitangcol, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan, U.S.A.] ====================================================================== 10. (2)(88%) I'm working through a good text called "Unix Network Programming" by W. Richard Stevens. In it, he lists his email address as rstevens@noao.edu. Could you tell me what organization 'noao' is? [Rick: Questions of this flavor show up on the nets frequently, (as readers of info-nets can attest to.) Ways to answer these questions are numerous. Here are a few...] ----- A typical whois question but since I was gophering I used the gopher interface to the 'new' whois database at the InterNIC: gopher gopher.internic.net Since the questions asks for 'domain' information choose the registration (of networks and domains) item: --> 3. InterNIC Registration Services (NSI)/ --> 2. Whois Searches Search for 'noao.edu' and select the most promising entry: --> 4. National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NET-NOAO-ARIZONA) 95... Which reads: "National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NET-NOAO-ARIZONA) 950 North Cherry Avenue Tucson, AZ 85719 Netname: NOAO-ARIZONA Netnumber: 140.252.0.0 Coordinator: Grandi, Steve (SG1) grandi@NOAO.EDU (602) 327-5511 Domain System inverse mapping provided by: NOAO.EDU 140.252.1.54 CS.ARIZONA.EDU 192.12.69.5 CV3.CV.NRAO.EDU 192.33.115.2 Record last updated on 18-Jan-91." Note the 'old' timestamp. Other records are of a more recent date but still point to the answer: National Optical Astronomy Observatories [From Xander Jansen, SURFnet, Utrecht, The Netherlands] ----- From our local Gopher: (gopher.csc.liv.ac.uk) Other Gopher servers UK Gopher servers Manchester University & UMIST Miscellaneous items Acronym dictionary Acronym dictionary (keyword search) Search on "NOAO" gives NOAO - National Optical Astronomy Observatories [From Dave Shield, Liverpool University, Liverpool, England] ----- ftp noao.edu |Connected to noao.edu. |220 noao FTP server (SunOS 4.0) ready. |Name (noao.edu:): ftp |331 Guest login ok, send ident as password. |Password: |230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. |ftp> get README |more |200 PORT command successful. |150 ASCII data connection for README (129.97.204.8,1844) (1183 bytes). |Welcome to NOAO.EDU!! | |Unfortunately, the anonymous FTP archives for the Tucson |branches of the National Optical Astronomy Observatories are |not on this machine! It looks like the National Optical Astronomy Observatories. [From Ian Goldberg, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada] ----- Telnet to NIC.DDN.MIL Execute a WHOIS command for noao.edu and you will find that it stands for NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORIES [From Michael Currin, University of Natal, Peietermaritzburg, Republic of South Africa.] ----- Telnet to NETFIND.OC.COM Login NETFIND 2.Search Enter person and keys (blank to exit)--> rstevens noao (search produces amoung others) 0. noao.edu(national optical astronomy observatories, United States) [From Andrew Lavery, Laverya@abe.cbe.ab.ca, abe3@educ.ucalgary.ca] ===================================================================== Extra Credit. (1)(94%) I have a network address, but its the numeric (IP) kind. Would you please find the full name (FQDN) for 128.111.122.50? [Rick: This was a gimmee (an easy one), and had more different solutions than even number 10!] ----- ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu your site Rick :-) telnet netinfo.berkeley.edu 117 reverse 128.111.122.50 [From Alvin Vitangcol, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan, U.S.A.] ----- EC) ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu Another sneaky one, Rick. Does this imply delusions of grandeur (Doc, if you cure me of my delusions of grandeur, I'll grant you eternal life...) ? telnet DFTNIC.GSFC.NASA.GOV. Username: DFTNIC [ 6] Network Yellow Pages [ 2] Get TCP/IP Node Information from Nameserver (NSLOOKUP) Enter HOST NAME (not address) --> 128.111.122.50 Server: dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov Address: 128.183.10.134 Name: ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu Address: 128.111.122.50 [From Mark Edwards @delphi.com] ----- Search strategy: The most common tool for answering this question is the unix tool "nslookup". However, a much more powerful and useful tool, "dig", is available on many unix systems. Dig has a "-x" option that queries the in-addr.arpa servers (which are the internet servers that map IP numbers back to names). sun-alexis ~ <180> ; <<>> DiG 2.0 <<>> -x ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY , status: NOERROR, id: 6 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra ; Ques: 1, Ans: 1, Auth: 0, Addit: 0 ;; QUESTIONS: ;; 50.122.111.128.in-addr.arpa, type = ANY, class = IN ;; ANSWERS: 50.122.111.128.in-addr.arpa. 3600 PTR ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu. ;; Sent 1 pkts, answer found in time: 301 msec ;; FROM: sun.Panix.Com to SERVER: default -- 0.0.0.0 ;; WHEN: Tue May 4 09:09:37 1993 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 45 rcvd: 102 So, the answer is "ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu". With 'nslookup': % nslookup Default Server: sun.Panix.Com Address: 198.7.0.2 > server ns.internic.net Default Server: ns.internic.net Address: 198.41.0.4 > set type=any > 50.122.111.128.in-addr.arpa Server: ns.internic.net Address: 198.41.0.4 Authoritative answers can be found from: HUB.UCSB.EDU inet address = 128.111.24.40 HAWK.UCSB.EDU inet address = 128.111.41.60 > server hub.ucsb.edu Default Server: hub.ucsb.edu Address: 128.111.24.40 > set type=any > 50.122.111.128.in-addr.arpa Server: hub.ucsb.edu Address: 128.111.24.40 50.122.111.128.in-addr.arpa host name = ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu [From Team.Panix, Public Access Unix, New York, New York, U.S.A.] ----- When we ftp or telnet from DELPHI, both the FQDN and the IP address are always displayed onscreen, so finding the answer to be ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu was very easy. However, this doesn't work for everyone, so we needed a better answer. The following isn't elegant, but it works fine in this case. Ftp to 128.111.122.50 Type cd hcf Get the file 'readme' which includes the following text: 1. Once you have access to the FTP program, you begin by FTPing to our computer giving its address in one or the other of the following two forms: ftp ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu or ftp 128.111.122.50 [From Delphi Internet Hunt Team, @delphi.com] ----- Execute nslookup with no arguments, and enter the following commands: > set qu=ptr > 50.122.111.128.in-addr.arpa. |-----+------| +-----------IP octets in reverse order to get: ---------- nslookup output ---------- Server: wa.com [server contacted by nslookup] Address: 192.135.191.1 50.122.111.128.in-addr.arpa. host name = ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu ------------------------------------- [From: Peter Marks, NCR Seattle Technology Center, Woodinville, Washington, U.S.A] ----- First you should check if your local system has a 'DNS-query' command available (DNS = Domain Name System). Look for commands like nslookup, dig or host. If available check the manuals for methods to do PTR-lookups (number -> name) and use that method to find the answer. If you don't have a query tool, you can use one of the public, 'via mail' tools from Yanoff's list: -IP Address Resolver mail resolve@cs.widener.edu mail dns@grasp.insa-lyon.fr (body of letter: help) usage: in body-of-letter: site
Mails you IP address of site. After the initial 'help' in a mail message to dns@grasp.insa-lyon.fr you send another message containing: name 128.111.122.50 The 'resolver' returns the answer: you> name 128.111.122.50 Officiel hostname: ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu ^ (Typo from the resolver). This host somehow sounds familiar ;-) [From Xander Jansen, SURFnet, Utrecht, The Netherlands] ===================================================================== Mystery Question: (From: [Jim Meritt] jmeritt@mental.mitre.org) I'm looking for how to get information of ship & aircraft schedules, cargo,... Any idea how to access this (current would be nice) information? If not, add "bus schedules" and make it a hunt question! Jim ----- Well, there's this: gopher to infoslug 5. The Community/ 16. SCMTD Bus Schedule--University Route 1. Or, more generally, Search gopherspace by veronica at NYSERNet: schedule It's got things like: (partial list) 53. UTA Bus Schedule/ 70. 1992-93 Fan Bus Schedule. 82. Bus schedule. 134. Bus Schedule/ 150. Inter-Campus Bus Schedule/ 152. Schedule of buses to and from New York/ 194. Shuttle Schedule. 199. Shuttle bus schedule. 235. Airways Transit Schedule. 349. SCMTD Bus Schedule--University Route 1. 385. R3 Train Schedule [15Mar93, 5kb]. 429. bus_schedule. 760. Bonanza Bus Schedule: Boston and Providence to New York. 761. Bonanza Bus Schedule: New York to Providence and Boston. 762. Bonanza Bus Schedule: Providence and Pawtucket to Boston. 763. Train Schedule from Boston to Providence (weekdays). 764. Train Schedule from Providence to Boston (weekdays). 766. Amtrak Schedule Southbound (Boston/Providence/New York/Washington). 767. Bonanza Bus Schedule: Providence, Pawtucket and Foxboro to Logan . 768. Bonanza Bus Schedule: Logan Airport to Foxboro, Pawtucket and Pro. 949. Train schedule (Austria) [From Ian Goldberg, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada] ----- The consensus on alt.internet.services is that airline schedules, at least, are ONLY available through commercial services. Telnet to hermes.merit.edu, connect to CompuServe, and use the Official Airline Guide or Easy Saabre. [From Thomas Dowling, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.] That's All Folks! -- Rick Gates (805) 893-7225 Dir. of Library Automation Univ. of California Library Santa Barbara, CA 93106 LB05gate@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu