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From: syssand@CCVAX.CCS.CSUS.EDU (John F. Sandhoff)
Subject: [vms-multinet] csus whois server
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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1991 00:51:18 GMT
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Archive-name: internet/whois/csus-nls/1991-03-25
Archive: csus.edu:/pub/nls/nls.doc [130.86.90.1]
Original-posting-by: syssand@CCVAX.CCS.CSUS.EDU (John F. Sandhoff)
Original-subject: csus whois server
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)


California State University Sacramento has maintained a form of
whois server for about a year now. This server (which is also
configured to respond to finger queries) uses a database to return
information about registered users.

The server machine is 'csus.edu'.

Information on the process can be obtained by picking up the documentation
from /pub/nls/nls.doc on Anonymous-FTP site 'csus.edu'. The program package
is available from the same location. (Note: the complete archive contains a
much prettier PostScript version of the documentation).

At some point in time I would like to port this code to interface to
VMS TCP packages. Such a port should not be difficult; coming up with
the *time* to do it is the difficult part. (I envision a multi-vendor
hook that will support MultiNet, WINS, and CMU, similar to the public
news packages that I've been studying).

    John F. Sandhoff, Systems Support
      California State University, Sacramento
        sandhoff@csus.edu