Network Miscellany

June-15-08

Network Miscellany

==Phrack Inc.==

Volume Three, Issue 28, File #4 of 12

Network Miscellany

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
by Taran King

June 1, 1989

ACSNET

~~~~~~
Australian Computer Science Network (ACSNET), also known as Oz, has its gateway

through the CSNET node munnari.oz.au and if you cannot directly mail to the
oz.au domain, try
either username%munnari.oz.au@UUNET.UU.NET or
munnari!username@UUNET.UU.NET.

AT&T MAIL
~~~~~~~~~
AT&T Mail is a mailing service of AT&T, probably what
you might call it’s
MCI-Mail equivalent. It is available on the UUCP network as node name
attmail
but I’ve had problems having mail get through. Apparently, it does cost money
to
mail to this service and the surrounding nodes are not willing to pick up
the tab for the
ingoing mail, or at least, this has seemingly been the case
thus far. I believe, though, that
perhaps routing to att!attmail!user would
work.

AT&T recently announced six
new X.400 interconnections between AT&T Mail and
electronic mail services in the U.S.,
Korea, Sweden, Australia, and Finland.
In the U.S., AT&T Mail is now interconnected with
Telenet Communications
Corporation’s service, Telemail, allowing users of both services to
exchange
messages easily. With the addition of these interconnections, the AT&T Mail

Gateway 400 Service allows AT&T Mail subscribers to exchange messages with
users of the
following electronic messaging systems:

Company E-Mail Name* Country
——-
———— ——-
TeleDelta TeDe 400 Sweden
OTC MPS400 Australia
Telecom-Canada
Envoy100 Canada
DACOM DACOM MHS Korea
P&T-Tele MailNet 400 Finland
Helsinki
Telephone Co. ELISA Finland
Dialcom Dialcom USA
Telenet Telemail USA
KDD Messavia
Japan
Transpac ATLAS400 France

The interconnections are based on the X.400
standard, a set of guidelines for
the format, delivery and receipt of electronic messages
recommended by an
international standards committee the CCITT. International X.400 messages /> incur a surcharge. They are:

To Canada:
Per note: $.05
Per message unit:
$.10

To other international locations:
Per note: $.20
Per message unit:
$.50

There is no surcharge for X.400 messages within the U.S. The following are

contacts to speak with about mailing through these mentioned networks. Other
questions can be
directed through AT&T Mail’s toll-free number, 1-800-624-5672.

MHS Gateway:
mhs!atlas MHS Gateway: mhs!dacom
Administrator: Bernard Tardieu Administrator: Bob
Nicholson
Transpac AT&T
Phone: 3399283203 Morristown, NJ 07960
Phone: +1 201
644 1838

MHS Gateway: mhs!dialcom MHS Gateway: mhs!elisa
Administrator: Mr.
Laraman Administrator: Ulla Karajalainen
Dialcom Nokia Data
South Plainfield, NJ 07080
Phone: 01135804371
Phone: +1 441 493 3843

MHS Gateway: mhs!envoy MHS Gateway:
mhs!kdd
Administrator: Kin C. Ma Administrator: Shigeo Lwase
Telecom Canada Kokusai
Denshin Denwa CO.
Phone: +1 613 567 7584 Phone: 8133477419

MHS Gateway:
mhs!mailnet MHS Gateway: mhs!otc
Administrator: Kari Aakala Administrator: Gary W. Krumbine /> Gen Directorate Of Post & AT&T Information Systems
Phone: 35806921730 Lincroft, NJ
07738
Phone: +1 201 576 2658

MHS Gateway: mhs!telemail MHS Gateway: mhs

Administrator: Jim Kelsay Administrator: AT&T Mail MHS
GTE Telenet Comm Corp Gateway

Reston, VA 22096 AT&T
Phone: +1 703 689 6034 Lincroft, NJ 08838
Phone: +1 800 624
5672

CMR
~~~
Previously known as Intermail, the Commercial Mail Relay (CMR)
Service is a
mail relay service between the Internet and three commercial electronic mail /> systems: US Sprint/Telenet, MCI-Mail, and DIALCOM systems (i.e. Compmail,
NSFMAIL, and
USDA-MAIL).

An important note: The only requirement for using this mail gateway is
that
the work conducted must be DARPA sponsored research and other approved
government
business. Basically, this means that unless you’ve got some
government-related business,
you’re not supposed to be using this gateway.
Regardless, it would be very difficult for them
to screen everything that goes
through their gateway. Before I understood the requirements of
this gateway, I
was sending to a user of MCI-Mail and was not contacted about any problems
with
that communication. Unfortunately, I mistyped the MCI-Mail address on one of
the
letters and that letter ended up getting read by system administrators who
then informed me
that I was not to be using that system, as well as the fact
that they would like to bill me
for using it. That was an interesting thought
on their part anyway, but do note that using
this service does incur charges.

The CMR mailbox address in each system corresponds to
the label:

Telemail: [Intermail/USCISI]TELEMAIL/USA
MCI-Mail: Intermail or
107-8239
CompMail: Intermail or CMP0817
NSF-Mail: Intermail or NSF153
USDA-Mail:
Intermail or AGS9999

Addressing examples for each e-mail system are as follows:

MCIMAIL:
123-4567 seven digit address
Everett T. Bowens person’s name (must be
unique!)

COMPMAIL:
CMP0123 three letters followed by three or four digits

S.Cooper initial, then "." and then last name
134:CMP0123 domain, then ":"
and then combination system and
account number

NSFMAIL:
NSF0123 three
letters followed by three or four digits
A.Phillips initial, then "." and then last
name
157:NSF0123 domain, then ":" and then combination system and
account
number

USDAMAIL:
AGS0123 three letters followed by three or four digits

P.Shifter initial, then "." and then last name
157:AGS0123 domain, then
":" and then combination system and
account number

TELEMAIL:

BARNOC user (directly on Telemail)
BARNOC/LODH user/organization (directly on Telemail)

[BARNOC/LODH]TELEMAIL/USA
[user/organization]system branch/country

The following
are other Telenet system branches/countries that can be mailed
to:

TELEMAIL/USA
NASAMAIL/USA MAIL/USA TELEMEMO/AUSTRALIA
TELECOM/CANADA TOMMAIL/CHILE TMAILUK/GB
ITALMAIL/ITALY
ATI/JAPAN PIPMAIL/ROC DGC/USA FAAMAIL/USA
GSFC/USA GTEMAIL/USA TM11/USA
TNET.TELEMAIL/USA
USDA/USA

Note: OMNET’s ScienceNet is on the Telenet system
MAIL/USA and to mail to
it, the format would be [A.MAILBOX/OMNET]MAIL/USA. The following are
available
subdivisions of OMNET:

AIR Atmospheric Sciences
EARTH Solid Earth
Sciences
LIFE Life Sciences
OCEAN Ocean Sciences
POLAR Interdisciplinary Polar
Studies
SPACE Space Science and Remote Sensing

The following is a list of DIALCOM
systems available in the listed countries
with their domain and system numbers:

Service Name Country Domain Number System Number
~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Keylink-Dialcom Australia 60 07, 08, 09
Dialcom Canada 20 20, 21, 22, 23,
24
DPT Databoks Denmark 124 71
Telebox Finland 127 62
Telebox West Germany 30 15,
16
Dialcom Hong Kong 80 88, 89
Eirmail Ireland 100 74
Goldnet Israel 50 05, 06 /> Mastermail Italy 130 65, 67
Mastermail Italy 1 66, 68
Dialcom Japan 70 13, 14

Dialcom Korea 1 52
Telecom Gold Malta 100 75
Dialcom Mexico 1 52
Memocom
Netherlands 124 27, 28, 29
Memocom Netherlands 1 55
Starnet New Zealand 64 01, 02

Dialcom Puerto Rico 58 25
Telebox Singapore 88 10, 11, 12
Dialcom Taiwan 1 52

Telecom Gold United Kingdom 100 01, 04, 17,
80-89
DIALCOM USA 1 29, 30, 31, 32,

33, 34, 37, 38,
41-59, 61, 62, 63,
90-99

NOTE: You can also mail to
username@NASAMAIL.NASA.GOV or
username@GSFCMAIL.NASA.GOV instead of going through the CMR
gateway to
mail to NASAMAIL or GSFCMAIL.

For more information and instructions on
how to use CMR, send a message to the
user support group at
intermail-request@intermail.isi.edu (you’ll get basically
what I’ve listed plus maybe a bit
more). Please read Chapter 3 of The Future
Transcendent Saga (Limbo to Infinity) for specifics
on mailing to these
destination mailing systems.

COMPUSERVE
~~~~~~~~~~ /> CompuServe is well known for its games and conferences. It does, though, have
mailing
capability. Now, they have developed their own Internet domain, called
COMPUSERVE.COM. It is
relatively new and mail can be routed through either
TUT.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU or
NORTHWESTERN.ARPA.

Example: user%COMPUSERVE.COM@TUT.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU or replace

TUT.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU with NORTHWESTERN.ARPA).

The CompuServe link appears to be a
polled UUCP connection at the gateway
machine. It is actually managed via a set of shell
scripts and a comm utility
called xcomm, which operates via command scripts built on the fly
by the shell
scripts during analysis of what jobs exist to go into and out of CompuServe. />
CompuServe subscriber accounts of the form 7xxxx,yyyy can be addressed as

7xxxx.yyyy@compuserve.com. CompuServe employees can be addressed by their
usernames in the
csi.compuserve.com subdomain. CIS subscribers write mail to

">inet:user@host.domain" to mail to users on the Wide-Area Networks, where

">gateway:" is CompuServe’s internal gateway access syntax. The gateway
generates
fully-RFC-compliant headers.

To fully extrapolate — from the CompuServe side, you
would use their EasyPlex
mail system to send mail to someone in BITNET or the Internet. For
example,
to send me mail at my Bitnet id, you would address it to:

INET:C488869%UMCVMB.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU

Or to my Internet id:

INET:C488869@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU

Now, if you have a BITNET to Internet userid, this is
a silly thing to do,
since your connect time to CompuServe costs you money. However, you can
use
this information to let people on CompuServe contact YOU. CompuServe Customer

Service says that there is no charge to either receive or send a message to the
Internet or
BITNET.

DASNET
~~~~~~
DASnet is a smaller network that connects to the
Wide-Area Networks but charges
for their service. DASnet subscribers get charged for both mail
to users on
other networks AND mail for them from users of other networks. The following

is a brief description of DASnet, some of which was taken from their
promotional text
letter.

DASnet allows you to exchange electronic mail with people on more than 20

systems and networks that are interconnected with DASnet. One of the
drawbacks, though, is
that, after being subscribed to these services, you must
then subscribe to DASnet, which is a
separate cost. Members of Wide-Area
networks can subscribe to DASnet too. Some of the networks
and systems
reachable through DASnet include the following:

ABA/net, ATT Mail,
BIX (Byte Information eXchange), DASnet Network,
Dialcom, EIES, EasyLink, Envoy 100, FAX,
GeoMail, INET, MCI Mail, NWI,
PeaceNet/EcoNet, Portal Communications, The Meta Network, The
Source,
Telemail, ATI’s Telemail (Japan), Telex, TWICS (Japan), UNISON, UUCP, The
WELL,
and Domains (i.e. ".COM" and ".EDU" etc.). New systems are added
all of
the time. As of the writing of this file, Connect, GoverNET,
MacNET, and The American
Institute of Physics PI-MAIL are soon to be
connected.

You can get various
accounts on DASnet including:

o Corporate Accounts — If your organization wants more
than one individual
subscription.
o Site Subscriptions — If you want DASnet to link
directly to your
organization’s electronic mail system.

To send e-mail through
DASnet, you send the message to the DASnet account on
your home system. You receive e-mail at
your mailbox, as you do now. On the
Wide-Area Networks, you send mail to
XB.DAS@STANFORD.BITNET. On the Subject:
line, you type the DASnet address in brackets and then
the username just
outside of them. The real subject can be expressed after the username

separated by a "!" (Example: Subject: [0756TK]randy!How’s Phrack?).

The only
disadvantage of using DASnet as opposed to Wide-Area networks is the
cost. Subscription costs
as of 3/3/89 cost $4.75 per month or $5.75 per month
for hosts that are outside of the
U.S.A.

You are also charged for each message that you send. If you are corresponding /> with someone who is not a DASnet subscriber, THEIR MAIL TO YOU is billed to
your
account.

The following is an abbreviated cost list for mailing to the different
services
of DASnet:

PARTIAL List DASnet Cost DASnet Cost
of Services 1st
1000 Each Add’l 1000
Linked by DASnet (e-mail) Characters Characters:

INET,
MacNET, PeaceNet, NOTE: 20 lines
Unison, UUCP*, Domains, .21 .11 of text is app.
e.g.
.COM, .EDU* 1000 characters.

Dialcom–Any "host" in U.S. .36 .25

Dialcom–Hosts outside U.S. .93 .83

EasyLink (From EasyLink) .21 .11
(To
EasyLink) .55 .23

U.S. FAX (internat’l avail.) .79 .37

GeoMail–Any
"host" in U.S. .21 .11
GeoMail–Hosts outside U.S. .74 .63

MCI (from
MCI) .21 .11
(to MCI) .78 .25
(Paper mail - USA) 2.31 .21

Telemail .36
.25

W.U. Telex–United States 1.79 1.63
(You can also send Telexes outside the
U.S.)

TWICS–Japan .89 .47

* The charges given here are to the gateway to
the network. The DASnet
user is not charged for transmission on the network itself.
/> Subscribers to DASnet get a free DASnet Network Directory as well as a listing
in the
directory, and the ability to order optional DASnet services like
auto-porting or DASnet Telex
Service which gives you your own Telex number and
answerback for $8.40 a month at this
time.

DASnet is a registered trademark of DA Systems, Inc.

DA Systems,
Inc.
1503 E. Campbell Ave.
Campbell, CA 95008
408-559-7434
TELEX: 910
380-3530

The following two sections on PeaceNet and AppleLink are in association
with
DASnet as this network is what is used to connect00 Finland
Helsinki Telephone Co.
ELISA Finland
Dialcom Dialcom USA
Telenet Telemail USA
KDD Messavia Japan

Transpac ATLAS400 France

The interconnections are based on the X.400 standard, a set of
guidelines for
the format, delivery and receipt of electronic messages recommended by an

international standards committee the CCITT. International X.400 messages
incur a surcharge.
They are:

To Canada:
Per note: $.05
Per message unit: $.10

To
other international locations:
Per note: $.20
Per message unit: $.50

There
is no surcharge for X.400 messages within the U.S. The following are
contacts to speak with
about mailing through these mentioned networks. Other
questions can be directed through
AT&T Mail’s toll-free number, 1-800-624-5672.

MHS Gateway: mhs!atlas MHS Gateway:
mhs!dacom
Administrator: Bernard Tardieu Administrator: Bob Nicholson
Transpac
AT&T
Phone: 3399283203 Morristown, NJ 07960
Phone: +1 201 644 1838

MHS
Gateway: mhs!dialcom MHS Gateway: mhs!elisa
Administrator: Mr. Laraman Administrator: Ulla
Karajalainen
Dialcom Nokia Data
South Plainfield, NJ 07080 Phone: 01135804371

Phone: +1 441 493 3843

MHS Gateway: mhs!envoy MHS Gateway: mhs!kdd
Administrator:
Kin C. Ma Administrator: Shigeo Lwase
Telecom Canada Kokusai Denshin Denwa CO.
Phone: +1
613 567 7584 Phone: 8133477419

MHS Gateway: mhs!mailnet MHS Gateway: mhs!otc

Administrator: Kari Aakala Administrator: Gary W. Krumbine
Gen Directorate Of Post &
AT&T Information Systems
Phone: 35806921730 Lincroft, NJ 07738
Phone: +1 201 576
2658

MHS Gateway: mhs!telemail MHS Gateway: mhs
Administrator: Jim Kelsay
Administrator: AT&T Mail MHS
GTE Telenet Comm Corp Gateway
Reston, VA 22096
AT&T
Phone: +1 703 689 6034 Lincroft, NJ 08838
Phone: +1 800 624 5672

CMR
~~~
Previously known as Intermail, the Commercial Mail Relay (CMR) Service is a /> mail relay service between the Internet and three commercial electronic mail
systems: US
Sprint/Telenet, MCI-Mail, and DIALCOM systems (i.e. Compmail,
NSFMAIL, and USDA-MAIL).

An important note: The only requirement for using this mail gateway is that
the work
conducted must be DARPA sponsored research and other approved
government business. Basically,
this means that unless you’ve got some
government-related business, you’re not supposed to be
using this gateway.
Regardless, it would be very difficult for them to screen everything that
goes
through their gateway. Before I understood the requirements of this gateway, I
was
sending to a user of MCI-Mail and was not contacted about any problems with
that
communication. Unfortunately, I mistyped the MCI-Mail address on one of
the letters and that
letter ended up getting read by system administrators who
then informed me that I was not to
be using that system, as well as the fact
that they would like to bill me for using it. That
was an interesting thought
on their part anyway, but do note that using this service does
incur charges.

The CMR mailbox address in each system corresponds to the label:

Telemail: [Intermail/USCISI]TELEMAIL/USA
MCI-Mail: Intermail or 107-8239

CompMail: Intermail or CMP0817
NSF-Mail: Intermail or NSF153
USDA-Mail: Intermail or
AGS9999