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From: droms@SOL.BUCKNELL.EDU (Ralph E. Droms)
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Subject: Re: list of whois,finger, etc. servers wanted
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Date: 21 Mar 91 03:00:08 GMT
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   There are now lists of online library catalogues that are regularly updated
   and distributed. Is there an equivalent for whois/finger/etc or other
   tcp/ip directory service type servers for the Internet?

I have a student who is compiling such a list.  He's working on
automatic mechanisms for generating a list of known servers and server
types.

This project is part of the "netaddress" service.  When complete,
netaddress will search the list of known servers for likely candidates
to query in addition to the current default servers like
whois@nic.ddn.mil, whois@sh.cs.net, etc.

I'd like to hear of any other, similar compilations.  Maybe someone
can save my student some work...

- Ralph Droms                 Computer Science Department
  droms@bucknell.edu          323 Dana Engineering
                              Bucknell University
  (717) 524-1145              Lewisburg, PA 17837