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From: andrew@jhereg.osa.com (Andrew C. Esh)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: whereis service needed
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.194343.15929@jhereg.osa.com>
Date: 17 Apr 91 19:43:43 GMT
References: <1991Apr13.033331.7658@disk.uucp>
Organization: Open Systems Architects, Inc., Mpls, MN
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In article <1991Apr13.033331.7658@disk.uucp> proberts@disk.uucp (Phil Roberts) writes:
>
>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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>  Phil Roberts           |      Internet:  proberts@disk.uucp 
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Yes, it does include sites outside the Milnet. It also includes the names
of the system administrators, and all the registered names of the users.
Since the government is fairly good about registering it's employees, you
can find out the name, address, and phone number of just about any person
who works for the government and who has a login ID on an Internet
connected host. Finger food.

Try a whois on my site. You will see a couple of contacts, and a couple of
the machines in the domain, but since I am not a registered user, you will
see no entry for me.

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