Re: NSI again removes services

[Dean Anderson <dean () av8 com>]

TAC as in tacacs?

Around 09:43 AM 10/19/1999 -0700, rumor has it that hardie () equinix com said:
> Wow, this looks like the SRI-era VOID database query result.  The
> impname and tacreq, in particular, look like they did back in the days
> when SRI was still doing tac cards out of the same database as whois.
> (TAC cards had user names and passwords which gave dial-up access to a
> pool of terminal access controllers run by DCA)
>
> Ken Harrenstein wrote VOID to serve as the whois database for the
> SRI-NIC and it had some useful bits that never made it in to later
> implementations.  I've always suspected that this was the influence of
> augment, one of Doug Engelbart's data storage brainstorms (for the
> TOPS 2065 platform).  One of the useful bits was that you could
> specify query type by sort algorithm as well as by key.  So you got
> wierd search commands like "li fi boo htype=h and netname=sri-net".
> (That specified a last in, first out boolean query, which was the most
> common type.)
>
> Sorry if the nostalgia break is off topic for you,
>
>                                       Ted Hardie
>
>
> John wrote:
> > (0) htype: D |
> > (1) handle: SERVICES5-DOM|
> > (2) name: Network Services Clearinghouse|
> > (3) hostname: |
> > (4) netname: |
> > (5) domainame: SERVICES.NET|
> > (6) netaddress: |
> > (7) address: c/o I.E.C.C.
> >      PO Box 640
> >      Trumansburg, NY 14886
> >      US|
> > (8) admincontact: HOS228-ORG|
> > (9) alternatepoc: |
> > (10) activation_date: 21-Jan-1997|
> > (11) billcontact: HOS228-ORG|
> > (12) comments: |
> > (13) connectype: |
> > (14) coordinator: |
> > (15) cputype: |
> > (16) groups: |
> > (17) hostadmin: |
> > (18) host: |
> > (19) impname: |
> > (20) impnetnumber: |
> > (21) impnumber: |
> > (22) inaddrserver: |
> > (23) usgpolicy: |
> > (24) mailbox: |
> > (25) netnumber: |
> > (26) netblock: |
> > (27) nicknames: |
> > (28) opsys: |
> > (29) parentdom: NET               |
> > (30) phone: |
> > (31) protocols: |
> > (32) servercontact: IVAN-HST LIGHT3-HST|
> > (33) tacid: |
> > (34) mctacnumber: |
> > (35) techcontact: HOS228-ORG|
> > (36) tissuedate: |
> > (37) updated: 19970121-111213 dawnf=|
> > (38) user_name: |
> > (39) validcard: |
> > (40) tacreq: |
> > (41) zonecontact: HOS228-ORG|
> > (42) registrar: |
> > (43) asn_name: |
> > (44) asn_number: |
> > (45) asn_block: |
> > -- 
> > John R. Levine, IECC, POB 727, Trumansburg NY 14886 +1 607 387 6869
> > johnl () iecc com, Village Trustee and Sewer Commissioner, http://iecc.com/johnl, 
> > Member, Provisional board, Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail
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