-*-Text-*-  File: CSNET Node: Top, Up: (DIR), Next: Intro The National Science Foundation Computer Science Network. This file will tell you what CSNet is, how to reach it, and lists each CSnet and associated ARPAnet relay machine. Questions or problems should be directed to the CSnet Liaison for MIT, Chris Stacy (CStacy@MIT-MC). Note: This INFO node is in the process of being updated and expanded. -- CSTACY * Menu: * Intro:: What is CSnet. * Reaching:: How to reach CSnet from the ARPAnet. * Hosts:: The CSnet host and relay assignment table. * Services:: The CSnet Service Host and Name Servers. * Status:: Finding out the status of CSNnet sites. * Documents:: Bibliography and retrieval info for CSnet documents. * Nicknames:: The nicknames of all the PhonNet sites.  File: CSNET Node: Intro, Up: Top, Previous: Top, Next: Reaching CSNET: A Computer Science Network CSNET is a cooperative effort of computer scientists to establish a computer-based communications network which will interconnect computer science research groups in universities, industry and government. Based on recent advances in computer network technology, including international protocol standards and the availability of commercial packet networks, CSNET will provide a feasible means for collaborative work at the forefront of computer science research. The benefits to the community are expected to be very significant, when compared to initial investments and continuing costs. In particular, CSNET will help to solve two critical problems which the computer science community now faces: severe personnel shortages and low productivity in software development. CSNET will reach an important milestone in 1984. After a successful three-year development effort, the network will become a fully operational utility, offering telephone and high-speed public data network access for CSNET members and an online database of user information. Since 1981, membership in CSNET has grown from a handful of institutions to nearly 100, representing many of the major academic and corporate research centers in the United States. From its inception, CSNET was intended to become a self-financing and self-managing organization based on member support. To this end, the National Science Foundation has awarded a new contract to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) in Boulder, Colorado to assume the management of CSNET. UCAR was chosen in part because of its long experience with and commitment to member-run organizations: it is a non-profit corporation which for 25 years has managed a major scientific facility, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, on behalf of a consortium of more than 50 universities.  File: CSNET Node: Reaching, Previous: Intro, Up: Top, Next: Hosts How to use CSnet Currently, CSNET is implemented as an electronic mail relay network called Phonenet. Messages are relayed between hosts over telephone lines. MIT is connected to the ARPAnet, which is part of the DoD Internet. The CSnet is not part of the Internet, but there is a way to send messages between users on the two network communities. There are two relay machines, one on each coast, which are on both the ARPAnet and the CSnet. These are CSNET-RELAY (east) and RAND-RELAY (west). To send mail to someone on CSnet, you must know their mailbox name and which CSnet host they receive their mail on. By specifying their addresses in a (kludgey) special way, you can route mail through one of the relay machines onto the CSnet. You must also choose which of the relay machines you wish to send the message through. This can be done by consulting the host/relay table under the menu item "Hosts". From the ARPAnet, the form of a CSnet mailbox is: "user.host@relay". For example, smith.Umcp-Cs@CSNET-RELAY specifies the user named "smith" at the University of Maryland, College Park, and that the message is to be routed through the east coast relay.  File: CSNET Node: Hosts, Previous: Reaching, Up: Top, Next: Status Here is the latest CSnet (PhoneNet) host table showing official names and aliases of hosts served by the Csnet and Rand relays. Note that UDEL-RELAY is no longer the best relay for reaching any PhoneNet sites. Please update any aliases or mailing lists to reflect the new relay assignments. CSNET SITES AS OF 1 NOVEMBER 1983 --------------------------------- * not yet online + change since 1 September 1983 (date of last map) PhoneNet Sites by Relay (official host names or aliases) ------------------------------------------------ at CSNET-RELAY +atari-c* Atari - Cambridge, MA brown Brown University - Providence, RI nsf National Science Foundation - Washington, D.C. pitt University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh, PA queens Queen's University - Kingston, Ontario, Canada rpi Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Troy, NY suny-sb SUNY at Stony Brook - Stony Brook, NY syr Syracuse University - Syracuse, NY toronto* University of Toronto - Toronto, Ontario, Canada umcp University of Maryland - College Park, MD umich University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI unc University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, NC unh University of New Hampshire - Durham, NH uwm University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee - Milwaukee, WI virginia University of Virginia - Charlottesville, VA waterloo* University of Waterloo - Waterloo, Ontario, Canada at RAND-RELAY +ames-ssr NASA Ames Research Center - Moffett Field, CA arizona The University of Arizona - Tucson, AZ +asu Arizona State University - Tempe, AZ atari Atari - Sunnyvale, CA boulder University of Colorado at Boulder - Boulder, CO brandeis Brandeis University - Waltham, MA btl-mh* Bell Telephone Labs - Murray Hill, NJ buffalo SUNY at Buffalo - Amherst, NY case Case Western Reserve University - Cleveland, OH clemson Clemson University - Clemson, SC colostate* Colorado State University - Ft. Collins, CO ct Computer Thought Corporation - Plano, TX decwrl* DEC Western Research Labs - Los Altos, CA depaul DePaul University - Chicago, IL digital Digital Equipment Corporation - Marlboro, MA duke Duke University - Durham, NC emory Emory University - Atlanta, GA fairchild* Fairchild Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence Research - Palo Alto, CA gatech Georgia Institute of Technology - Atlanta, GA gmr* General Motors Research Labs - Warren, MI hawaii* University of Hawaii at Manoa - Honolulu, HI +houston University of Houston - Houston, TX hp-labs Hewlett Packard - Palo Alto, CA ibm-sj IBM Research - San Jose, CA indiana Indiana University - Bloomington, IN jhu Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore, MD +kansas-state Kansas State University - Manhattan, KS kent Kent State University - Kent, OH nmt New Mexico Tech - Socorro, NM +northeastern Northeastern University - Boston, MA nwu Northwestern University - Evanston, IL ohio-state Ohio State University - Columbus, OH okstate* Oklahoma State University - Stillwater, OK oregon-grad Oregon Graduate Center - Beaverton, OR oregon-state Oregon State University - Corvallis, OR penn-state Pennnsylvania State University - University Park, PA portland Portland State University - Portland, OR princeton Princeton University - Princeton, NJ rice Rice University - Houston, TX scarolina University of South Carolina - Columbia, SC +smu* Southern Methodist University - Dallas, TX tamu Texas A&M University - College Station, TX tektronix Tektronix - Beaverton, OR ti* Texas Instruments Corporation - Dallas, TX uab University of Alabama at Birmingham - Birmingham, AL ubc* University of British Columbia - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ucf University of Central Florida - Orlando, FL uci University of California, Irvine - Irvine, CA ucsb University of California, Santa Barbara - Santa Barbara, CA ucsc University of California, Santa Cruz - Santa Cruz, CA ufl University of Florida - Gainesville, FL +uhcl* University of Houston at Clear Lake - Houston, TX uiowa University of Iowa - Iowa City, IA uiuc University of Illinois - Urbana, IL ukans University of Kansas - Lawrence, KA umass-boston University of Massachusetts at Boston - Boston, MA umass University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Amherst, MA (Dept. of Computer & Info. Sciences) umass-ece University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Amherst, MA (Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering) uminn University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, MN umiss University of Mississippi - University, MS unlv* University of Nevada at Las Vegas - Las Vegas, NV upenn University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA usc-cse University of Southern California - Los Angeles, CA usf* University of South Florida - Tampa, FL usl University of Southwestern Louisiana - Lafayette, LA utd University of Texas at Dallas - Richardson, TX utenn* University of Tennessee - Knoxville, TN vanderbilt Vanderbilt University - Nashville, TN +vpi Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - Blacksburg, VA wang-inst Wang Institute of Graduate Studies - Tyngsboro, MA wash-state* Washington State University - Pullman, WA ARPANET Sites (site names, actual host names may vary) -------------------------------------------------- berkeley University of California, Berkeley - Berkeley, CA bbn-unix Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. - Cambridge, MA cmu Carnegie-Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA cornell Cornell University - Ithaca, NY harv-10 Harvard University - Cambridge, MA mit-mc Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge, MA purdue Purdue University - West Lafayette, IN rand-unix Rand Corporation - Santa Monica, CA rochester University of Rochester - Rochester, NY rutgers Rutgers University - New Brunswick, NJ stanford Stanford University - Stanford, CA utexas-20 University of Texas at Austin - Austin, TX ucla University of California, Los Angeles - Los Angeles, CA udel University of Delaware - Newark, DE usc University of Southern California - Los Angeles, CA utah University of Utah - Salt Lake City, UT washington University of Washington - Seattle, WA wisconsin University of Wisconsin - Madison, WI yale Yale University - New Haven, CT CSNET Facilities (official host names) -------------------------------------- Relays: +csnet-relay Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. - Cambridge, MA rand-relay Rand Corporation - Santa Monica, CA udel-relay University of Delaware - Newark, DE Service Host: csnet-sh University of Wisconsin - Madison, WI CIC Host: csnet-cic Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. - Cambridge, MA  File: CSNET Node: Services, Previous: Hosts, Up: Top, Next: Status Besides the relay machines, CSnet operates two other machines on the DoD Internet. The CSnet Coordination and Information Center uses CSNET-CIC. The CIC periodically distributes newsletters and updates. This information is sent to your host liaison; you can get copies of the material from that person if you are interested. The CIC staff can be reached by sending mail to "cic@CSNET-SH". CIC also operates a hotline telephone number: (617) 497-2777. The CSNET Service Host at the University of Wisconsin is now operational. This machine will provide various services, including archiving of documents and the CSNET Name Server Directory Service. When available, this Name Server will provide a high level of directory assistance to the internet community. The Service Host is a component of the NSF sponsored CSNET project. The Service Host is a VAX 11/750 running standard Berkeley UNIX (4.1 BSD). It is currently connected to Arpanet and will soon have an X.25 connection to Telenet. The ARPANET host name is CSNET-SH.  File: CSNET Node: Status, Previous: Hosts, Up: Top, Next: Documents You can find out the status of the CSnet sites by sending a mail message to the address "status@CSNET-RELAY". A message agent (program) will mail you back an automatic reply, and the contents of your message will be ignored. Here is a sample reply: ----- Date: 27 Oct 83 12:18:36-EDT (Thu) From: MESSAGE AGENT To: CSTACY This is an automatic reply for The Phonenet Status Reporter: STATUS OF EXCEPTIONAL CSNET SYSTEMS The following summarizes the status of CSNET sites known to be having difficulties. If you wish more information on a particular CSNET site, please contact the CSNET Coordination and Information Center at or the CIC hotline number (617)497-2777. -------------------------------------------------------------------- D - Down. Site solidly out of service. I - Intermittent service. Site getting mail through occasionally. R - Restored service. Previous mail problems have been resolved. -------------------------------------------------------------------- As of 10/26/83 Site Status Comments --------------------------------------------------------------------- rand-relay I Delivery delays due to ARPANET trouble -----  File: CSNET Node: Documents, Previous: Services, Next: Nicknames, Up: Top ARPANET users may obtain the files listed below from the CSNET-SH machine using FTP with login anonymous and password guest. The following documents are included as files in the directory /csnet/docs. CSNET DOCUMENTS /csnet/docs/index Index of documents in docs directory. /csnet/docs/doc-1 CSNET NSF Proposal - University of Wisconsin, Lawrence H. Landweber, September 1980. /csnet/docs/doc-2 CSNET Project Outline, C. William Kern, NSF Computer Science Section, March 1981. /csnet/docs/doc-3 PhoneNet and Public Host Application, CSNET Management Committee, June 1981. /csnet/docs/doc-4 CSNET Project Report-1, CSNET Management Committee, June 1981. CSNET DESIGN NOTES: CSNET Design Notes are technical reports which deal with issues related to the design and implementation of CSNET. The following documents are currently available. CSNET DESIGN NOTES /csnet/dn/index /csnet/dn/dn-1 USE OF MULTIPLE NETWORKS IN CSNET L.H. Landweber, M. Solomon November 1981 /csnet/dn/dn-2 THE DESIGN OF THE CSNET NAME SERVER (Preliminary Report) M. Solomon, L.H. Landweber, and D. Neuhengen August 1981, Revised November 1981 /csnet/dn/dn-3 AN INTERNETWORK MEMO DISTRIBUTION CAPABILITY -- MMDF D.H. Crocker, E.S. Szurkowski, and D.J. Farber September 1979 /csnet/dn/dn-4 MMDF DIAL-UP LINK PROTOCOL E.S. Szurkowski April 1980  File: CSNET Node: Nicknames, Previous: Documents, Up: Top Here is a reference list of PhoneNet host names and nicknames. alabama Uabcs@Rand-Relay alabama-cs Uabcs@Rand-Relay arizona Arizona@Rand-Relay arizona-state Asu@Rand-Relay asu Asu@Rand-Relay asu-vax Asu@Rand-Relay atari Atari@Rand-Relay az Arizona@Rand-Relay bashful Unc-Bashful@CSNet-Relay bell-labs Btl-Mh@Rand-Relay belllabs Btl-Mh@Rand-Relay boulder Boulder@Rand-Relay brandeis Brandeis@Rand-Relay brown Brown@CSNet-Relay btl-mh Btl-Mh@Rand-Relay btl-owl Btl-Mh@Rand-Relay btlmh Btl-Mh@Rand-Relay bufcs Buffalo-Cs@Rand-Relay buffalo Buffalo-Cs@Rand-Relay buffalo-cs Buffalo-Cs@Rand-Relay carolina Scarolina@Rand-Relay case Case@Rand-Relay case-western Case@Rand-Relay central-florida Ucf-Cs@Rand-Relay cerebus Nmt@Rand-Relay chapel-hill Unc@CSNet-Relay cipr Umich-Ciprnet@CSNet-Relay clemson Clemson@Rand-Relay ct Ct@Rand-Relay ctvax Ct@Rand-Relay cwru Case@Rand-Relay dallas Utd-Cs@Rand-Relay dec-crg Digital@Rand-Relay dec-csnet Digital@Rand-Relay dec-hudson Digital@Rand-Relay depaul Depaul@Rand-Relay digital Digital@Rand-Relay doc Unc-Doc@CSNet-Relay dopey Unc@CSNet-Relay duke Duke@Rand-Relay ean Ubc@Rand-Relay emory Emory@Rand-Relay florida Ucf-Cs@Rand-Relay ga-tech Gatech@Rand-Relay gatch Gatech@Rand-Relay gatech Gatech@Rand-Relay georgia Gatech@Rand-Relay georgia-tech Gatech@Rand-Relay git Gatech@Rand-Relay grumpey Unc-Grumpy@CSNet-Relay grumpy Unc-Grumpy@CSNet-Relay hewey Hp-Hewey@Rand-Relay hewlett-packard Hp-Labs@Rand-Relay hopkins Jhu@Rand-Relay houston Houston@Rand-Relay hp Hp-Labs@Rand-Relay hp-hewey Hp-Hewey@Rand-Relay hp-hulk Hp-Hulk@Rand-Relay hp-labs Hp-Labs@Rand-Relay hp-mars Hp-Mars@Rand-Relay hp-mercury Hp-Mercury@Rand-Relay hp-thor Hp-Thor@Rand-Relay hp-vax Hp-Labs@Rand-Relay hp-venus Hp-Hewey@Rand-Relay hplabs Hp-Labs@Rand-Relay hpvax Hp-Labs@Rand-Relay hulk Hp-Hulk@Rand-Relay ibm Ibm-Sj@Rand-Relay ibm-sj Ibm-Sj@Rand-Relay ibm-sjrlvm1 Ibm-Sj@Rand-Relay ibmsj Ibm-Sj@Rand-Relay indiana Indiana@Rand-Relay iowa Uiowa@Rand-Relay iucs Indiana@Rand-Relay iuvax Indiana@Rand-Relay jhu Jhu@Rand-Relay johns-hopkins Jhu@Rand-Relay kansas-state Kansas-State@Rand-Relay kanstate Kansas-State@Rand-Relay kent Kentvax@Rand-Relay kentvax Kentvax@Rand-Relay ksu Kentvax@Rand-Relay ku Ukans@Rand-Relay labs Btl-Mh@Rand-Relay maryland-cp Umcp-Cs@CSNet-Relay min Umn-Cs@Rand-Relay minn Umn-Cs@Rand-Relay minn-cs Umn-Cs@Rand-Relay minncs Umn-Cs@Rand-Relay mn-cs Umn-Cs@Rand-Relay mncs Umn-Cs@Rand-Relay new-mexico-tech Nmt@Rand-Relay newmexicotech Nmt@Rand-Relay nmt Nmt@Rand-Relay nmtvax Nmt@Rand-Relay northeastern Northeastern@Rand-Relay nsf Nsf-Cs@CSNet-Relay nsf-cs Nsf-Cs@CSNet-Relay nsfcs Nsf-Cs@CSNet-Relay nuacs Northeastern@Rand-Relay nwu Nwu@Rand-Relay ogc Oregon-Grad@Rand-Relay ogcvax Oregon-Grad@Rand-Relay ohio-state Ohio-State@Rand-Relay olemiss Umiss@Rand-Relay onyx Nsf-Cs@CSNet-Relay oregon Oregon-Grad@Rand-Relay oregon-grad Oregon-Grad@Rand-Relay oregon-state Oregon-State@Rand-Relay orstcs Oregon-State@Rand-Relay osu-cis Ohio-State@Rand-Relay osu-dbs Ohio-State@Rand-Relay owl Btl-Mh@Rand-Relay penn Upenn@Rand-Relay penn-750 Upenn-750@Rand-Relay penn-cis Upenn@Rand-Relay penn-cs Upenn@Rand-Relay penn-state Penn-State@Rand-Relay penn750 Upenn-750@Rand-Relay pitt Pitt@CSNet-Relay pittsburgh Pitt@CSNet-Relay portland Portland@Rand-Relay prin Princeton@Rand-Relay prin-vlsi Vlsivax@Rand-Relay princ Princeton@Rand-Relay princeton Princeton@Rand-Relay princeton-vlsi Vlsivax@Rand-Relay prinu Princeton@Rand-Relay psuvax1 Penn-State@Rand-Relay qu Qucis@CSNet-Relay qucis Qucis@CSNet-Relay queens Qucis@CSNet-Relay rensselaer Rpi@CSNet-Relay rice Rice@Rand-Relay rip Rpi@CSNet-Relay rpi Rpi@CSNet-Relay santacruz Ucsc@Rand-Relay sb-cs Suny-Sbcs@CSNet-Relay sbcs Suny-Sbcs@CSNet-Relay scar Scarolina@Rand-Relay scarolina Scarolina@Rand-Relay sjrl Ibm-Sj@Rand-Relay sleepy Unc-Sleepy@CSNet-Relay stony-brook Suny-Sbcs@CSNet-Relay suny Suny-Sbcs@CSNet-Relay suny-buf Buffalo-Cs@Rand-Relay suny-sb Suny-Sbcs@CSNet-Relay suny-sbcs Suny-Sbcs@CSNet-Relay suny-stony Suny-Sbcs@CSNet-Relay syr Syr@CSNet-Relay tamu Tamu@Rand-Relay tek Tektronix@Rand-Relay tek Tektronix@Rand-Relay tekcrd Tektronix@Rand-Relay tekcrd Tektronix@Rand-Relay tektronix Tektronix@Rand-Relay tektronix Tektronix@Rand-Relay texam Tamu@Rand-Relay thor Hp-Thor@Rand-Relay tute Rpi@CSNet-Relay u-pitt Pitt@CSNet-Relay uab Uabcs@Rand-Relay uabcs Uabcs@Rand-Relay ubc Ubc@Rand-Relay ubc-ean Ubc@Rand-Relay ucf Ucf-Cs@Rand-Relay ucf-cs Ucf-Cs@Rand-Relay ucfl Ucf-Cs@Rand-Relay ucfl-cs Ucf-Cs@Rand-Relay uci Uci@Rand-Relay uci-20a Uci-20a@Rand-Relay uci-20b Uci-20b@Rand-Relay uci-750a Uci-750a@Rand-Relay uci-750b Uci-750b@Rand-Relay uci-vax Uci-Vax@Rand-Relay ucsb Ucsb@Rand-Relay ucsbcsil Ucsb@Rand-Relay ucsbcsl Ucsb@Rand-Relay ucsc Ucsc@Rand-Relay ucsccis Ucsc@Rand-Relay ufl Ufl@Rand-Relay ufla Ufl@Rand-Relay uh Houston@Rand-Relay uiowa Uiowa@Rand-Relay uiuc Uiuc@Rand-Relay uiucdcs Uiuc@Rand-Relay ukan Ukans@Rand-Relay ukans Ukans@Rand-Relay um-boston Umass-Boston@Rand-Relay umaryland Umcp-Cs@CSNet-Relay umaryland-college-park Umcp-Cs@CSNet-Relay umaryland-cp Umcp-Cs@CSNet-Relay umass Umass-Cs@Rand-Relay umass-boss Umass-Boston@Rand-Relay umass-boston Umass-Boston@Rand-Relay umass-coins Umass-Cs@Rand-Relay umass-cs Umass-Cs@Rand-Relay umass-ece Umass-Ece@Rand-Relay umass-ecs Umass-Ece@Rand-Relay umb Umass-Boston@Rand-Relay umboston Umass-Boston@Rand-Relay umcp Umcp-Cs@CSNet-Relay umcp-cs Umcp-Cs@CSNet-Relay umd-csd Umd-Csd@CSNet-Relay umd8 Umd-Csd@CSNet-Relay umich Umich-Ciprnet@CSNet-Relay umich-cipr Umich-Ciprnet@CSNet-Relay umich-ciprnet Umich-Ciprnet@CSNet-Relay umich-cv Umich-Ciprnet@CSNet-Relay umin Umn-Cs@Rand-Relay uminn Umn-Cs@Rand-Relay uminn-cs Umn-Cs@Rand-Relay umiss Umiss@Rand-Relay umn-cs Umn-Cs@Rand-Relay umn-csci Umn-Cs@Rand-Relay umncsci Umn-Cs@Rand-Relay unc Unc@CSNet-Relay unc-bashful Unc-Bashful@CSNet-Relay unc-ch Unc@CSNet-Relay unc-doc Unc-Doc@CSNet-Relay unc-dopey Unc@CSNet-Relay unc-grumpey Unc-Grumpy@CSNet-Relay unc-grumpy Unc-Grumpy@CSNet-Relay unc-sleepy Unc-Sleepy@CSNet-Relay uncch Unc@CSNet-Relay unh Unh@CSNet-Relay unh-csvax Unh@CSNet-Relay upenn Upenn@Rand-Relay upenn-1100 Upenn-1100@Rand-Relay upenn-750 Upenn-750@Rand-Relay upenn-cis Upenn@Rand-Relay upenn-cs Upenn@Rand-Relay upenn750 Upenn-750@Rand-Relay upitt Pitt@CSNet-Relay usc-cse Usc-Cse@Rand-Relay uscvax Usc-Cse@Rand-Relay usl Usl@Rand-Relay ut-dallas Utd-Cs@Rand-Relay utd Utd-Cs@Rand-Relay utd-cs Utd-Cs@Rand-Relay utexas-dallas Utd-Cs@Rand-Relay uva Virginia@CSNet-Relay uva-cs Virginia@CSNet-Relay uvacs Virginia@CSNet-Relay uvirgin Virginia@CSNet-Relay uvirginia Virginia@CSNet-Relay uwm Uwmeecs@CSNet-Relay uwm-eecs Uwmeecs@CSNet-Relay uwmeecs Uwmeecs@CSNet-Relay vand Vanderbilt@Rand-Relay vanderbilt Vanderbilt@Rand-Relay vanderbiult Vanderbilt@Rand-Relay vanderbuilt Vanderbilt@Rand-Relay vandy Vanderbilt@Rand-Relay vatech Vpi@Rand-Relay virginia Virginia@CSNet-Relay virginia Virginia@CSNet-Relay vlsivax Vlsivax@Rand-Relay vpi Vpi@Rand-Relay vpisu Vpi@Rand-Relay vpivax1 Vpi@Rand-Relay vu Vanderbilt@Rand-Relay wang-igs Wang-Inst@Rand-Relay wang-inst Wang-Inst@Rand-Relay wang-institute Wang-Inst@Rand-Relay