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From: proberts@disk.uucp (Phil Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: whereis service needed
Message-ID: <1991Apr13.033331.7658@disk.uucp>
Date: 13 Apr 91 03:33:31 GMT
References: <9104102214.AA12053@europa.clearpoint.com>
Organization: Digital Information Systems of KY
Lines: 34

kasten@EUROPA.CLEARPOINT.COM (Frank Kastenholz) writes:


> > From tcp-ip-RELAY@nic.ddn.mil Wed Apr 10 18:08:51 1991
> > From: hal@gateway.mitre.org
> > To: tcp-ip@nic.ddn.mil
> > Subject: whereis service needed
> > 
> > 
> > Here the issue:
> > 
> > I am seeing fully qualified domain names with parts I don't recognize.
> > Not that these are wrong but just unfamilar. It would be useful to
> > have access to a server of some kind that would map fragements of a
> > domain name into an geographical location by political subdivision.
> > This might be a useful extension to the current domain names system.
> > Any thoughts??
> > 

>WHOIS does a reasonably adequate job of starting one on
>one's way -- for domains that are registered at the NIC.

[[ His domain listing deleted. ]]

I thought the NIC was for the Milnet only.  Am I understanding you correctly
that the NIC can also provide me with domains outside the Milnet?  If that
is true, how does one go about finding a site when one doesn't have Telnet
capability?

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