Re: simple user access to X.500
Mohamed Ellozy <ellozy@farber.harvard.edu> Wed, 01 April 1992 03:15 UTC
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From: Mohamed Ellozy <ellozy@farber.harvard.edu>
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Subject: Re: simple user access to X.500
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Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1992 20:56:42 -0500
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In-Reply-To: <199203312256.AA02457@venera.isi.edu>; from "Tom Tignor" at Mar 31, 92 2:56 pm
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> Hi. > > We are looking to see if anyone has developed a very specific > kind of DUA. (Actually we're not sure this is a DUA or something > else). > > It should be able to return useful information via a very > simple command set, something like the old whois. You don't need something LIKE the old whois, the whois client itself will do the job (can do the job). There are instructions for making a real dua listen on the whois port and respond. I do not remember them, but it is very easy. Once that is done you send a whois-like request, using User Friendly Notation, and get a reply. Here I am querying my whois server for a person at PSI: Script started on Tue Mar 31 20:49:48 1992 farber% whois -h farber [Kexit exit script done on Tue Mar 31 20:49:58 1992
- simple user access to X.500 Tom Tignor
- Re: simple user access to X.500 Mohamed Ellozy
- Re: simple user access to X.500 Tim Howes
- Re: simple user access to X.500 Russ Wright
- Re: simple user access to X.500 Ruth Lang