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From: lrogers@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Larry Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: list of whois,finger, etc. servers wanted
Message-ID: <6504@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
Date: 21 Mar 91 15:18:30 GMT
References: <1991Mar19.222345.18735@ns.uoregon.edu> <9103210300.AA01972@sol.bucknell.edu>
Reply-To: lrogers@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Larry Rogers)
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In article <9103210300.AA01972@sol.bucknell.edu> droms@SOL.BUCKNELL.EDU (Ralph E. Droms) writes:
>   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?
>
>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 would like to know if this database will contain its own entry as a 
default server.  Will it then be classified as mere default server, as opposed
to the meta-default server it set out to be?
   There seems to be a note of history sounding around here...
:-)

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

Please forgive my horrible mangled interpretation of a philosophic debate of
immense importance.  Also I should attribute these things better.

Waxing philosophic,
Larry