mmessinger Jul 10 1993, 3:07 am show options Newsgroups: rec.games.chess From: mmessin...@wesleyan.edu - Find messages by this author Date: 9 Jul 93 20:38:40 EDT Local: Fri, Jul 9 1993 5:38 pm Subject: cirrus/ics Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse i dont understand how to connect to the new ics server - what exactly should i telnet? please help! Martin M|ller Pedersen Jul 12 1993, 9:26 am show options Newsgroups: rec.games.chess From: t...@daimi.aau.dk (Martin M|ller Pedersen) - Find messages by this author Date: Mon, 12 Jul 93 16:04:52 GMT Local: Mon, Jul 12 1993 9:04 am Subject: Re: cirrus/ics Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse mmessin...@wesleyan.edu writes: >i dont understand how to connect to the new ics server - what exactly should i >telnet? please help! try: telnet 128.220.55.21 5000 for the american chess server and telnet 130.225.16.162 5000 for the european chess server Paul Colley Jul 12 1993, 11:29 am show options Newsgroups: rec.games.chess From: col...@qucis.queensu.ca (Paul Colley) - Find messages by this author Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 18:15:09 GMT Local: Mon, Jul 12 1993 11:15 am Subject: Re: cirrus/ics Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse In article <1993Jul12.160452.6...@daimi.aau.dk> t...@daimi.aau.dk (Martin M|ller Pedersen) writes: >try: >telnet 128.220.55.21 5000 for the american chess server and Howabout a name instead of the number? Thanks. - Paul Colley University: col...@qucis.queensu.ca Home: pacol...@ember.uucp watmath!ember!pacolley +1 613 545 3807 "Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of" - Ken Burnside Andy Tannenbaum Jul 13 1993, 9:17 am show options Newsgroups: rec.games.chess From: t...@clam.com (Andy Tannenbaum) - Find messages by this author Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 15:38:38 GMT Local: Tues, Jul 13 1993 8:38 am Subject: Re: cirrus/ics Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse > > try: telnet 128.220.55.21 5000 for the american chess server and > Howabout a name instead of the number? Thanks. For the information of many folks out there who are asking about this: There is no "advertised" name associated with 128.220.55.21. The adress is part of med.jhu.edu subnet at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, USA, as is the rest of the 128.220.55 Internet domain. (Btw, all the info in this message is available the the casual Internet user - no secrets here.) There are thousands of advertised net node names at JHU, but 128.220.55.21 doesn't have one. For example, you can look up ayla.med.jhu.edu and find that its net address is 128.220.55.3. Same subnet as the ICS server machine, but it advertises its name, the ICS server does not. If you try to log in to the ICS machine, it calls itself cuneus, so perhaps its name might be cuneus.med.jhu.edu, but if a site does not advertise that name through the Intenet Name Service, the name does not exist as far as the Internet (outside of JHU) is concerned. If your client software understands only names and not numeric addresses, then you should fix your software. In the UNIX case, you should check the first character of the name and use gethostbyaddr() if it's a number and gethostbyname() if it's a letter (look these functions up in your UNIX manual). Other systems that talk to the Internet probably have calls with exactly the same names, but I offer no guarantees. If I were you all, I would be ever so grateful that someone at JHU is providing ICS service for us, so shut up and enjoy it. Andrew Tannenbaum CLaM Associates Cambridge, MA USA Eric S. Perlman Jul 14 1993, 4:27 pm show options Newsgroups: rec.games.chess From: perl...@qso.Colorado.EDU (Eric S. Perlman) - Find messages by this author Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1993 22:57:25 GMT Local: Wed, Jul 14 1993 3:57 pm Subject: Re: cirrus/ics Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse In article col...@qucis.queensu.ca (Paul Colley) writes: >In article <1993Jul12.160452.6...@daimi.aau.dk> t...@daimi.aau.dk >(Martin M|ller Pedersen) writes: >>try: >>telnet 128.220.55.21 5000 for the american chess server and >Howabout a name instead of the number? Thanks. >- Paul Colley Wish I could help, Paul. The address should be cuneus.med.jhu.edu; however, it doesn't yet appear to have made it into nslookup files so you will not be able to use it. -- "How sad to see/A model of decorum and tranquillity/become like any other sport A battleground for rival ideologies to slug it out with glee." -Tim Rice,"Chess" Eric S. Perlman Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, University of Colorado, Boulder LEE J. STANLEY Jul 15 1993, 11:24 am show options Newsgroups: rec.games.chess From: l...@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (LEE J. STANLEY) - Find messages by this author Date: 15 Jul 93 14:23:23 GMT Local: Thurs, Jul 15 1993 7:23 am Subject: Re: cirrus/ics Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse In article <1993Jul14.225725.2...@colorado.edu>, perl...@qso.Colorado.EDU (Eric - Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - S. Perlman) writes: >In article col...@qucis.queensu.ca (Paul Colle y) writes: >>In article <1993Jul12.160452.6...@daimi.aau.dk> t...@daimi.aau.dk >>(Martin M|ller Pedersen) writes: >>>try: >>>telnet 128.220.55.21 5000 for the american chess server and >>Howabout a name instead of the number? Thanks. >>- Paul Colley >Wish I could help, Paul. The address should be cuneus.med.jhu.edu; >however, it doesn't yet appear to have made it into nslookup files so >you will not be able to use it. >-- >"How sad to see/A model of decorum and tranquillity/become like any other sport >A battleground for rival ideologies to slug it out with glee." -Tim Rice,"Chess " > Eric S. Perlman > Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, University of Colorado, Boulder Of course as most of you probably realize the US server went down Wednesday about 6 PM EDT, for unknown cause and duration. So the only ICS action right now is on the Euro-server. I was unable to get to the US server as of Thurs morning. Best Wishes, L. -- Lee J. Stanley E-Mail: L...@LEHIGH.EDU Department of Mathematics 14 Lehigh University Peter Stein Jul 15 1993, 12:44 pm show options Newsgroups: rec.games.chess From: pst...@falcon.depaul.edu (Peter Stein) - Find messages by this author Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1993 18:12:37 GMT Local: Thurs, Jul 15 1993 11:12 am Subject: FAQ Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse Under section "[7] Bulletin Board Systems (BBS's)" we may wish to add an entry for Delphi. Delphi provides Internet connectivity which is required in order to access ICS. I've seen 2 Delphi ads recently in the Sunday Chicago Tribune and the August Computer Shopper both of which mentioned a rate as low as $1/hr (this blows away the LINC!). If this is indeed the case this is tremendous news for those who are interested in ICS, but lack Internet access at present. Delphi is offering 5 hours free to try them out. I encourage everyone to pick up one of the graphical ICS interfaces and give it a shot. BTW, in addition to ICS access a whole world of archives becomes available to those with Internet access. If anyone is reading this posting via Delphi access please let us know about the service. Johannes Fuernkranz Jul 16 1993, 3:51 am show options Newsgroups: rec.games.chess From: j...@ai.univie.ac.at (Johannes Fuernkranz) - Find messages by this author Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1993 10:27:32 GMT Local: Fri, Jul 16 1993 3:27 am Subject: Re: FAQ Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse In article <1993Jul15.181237.19...@hal.depaul.edu> pst...@falcon.depaul.edu (Peter Stein) writes: >Under section "[7] Bulletin Board Systems (BBS's)" we may wish to add an >entry for Delphi. Delphi provides Internet connectivity which is required >in order to access ICS. I've seen 2 Delphi ads recently in the Sunday >Chicago Tribune and the August Computer Shopper both of which mentioned >a rate as low as $1/hr (this blows away the LINC!). If this is indeed the >case this is tremendous news for those who are interested in ICS, but >lack Internet access at present. Delphi is offering 5 hours free to try >them out. I encourage everyone to pick up one of the graphical ICS >interfaces and give it a shot. BTW, in addition to ICS access a whole >world of archives becomes available to those with Internet access. If >anyone is reading this posting via Delphi access please let us know >about the service. Am I wrong or isn't it so that you need Internet access *first* to read the FAQ? Juffi -- Johannes Fuernkranz j...@ai.univie.ac.at Austrian Research Inst. for Artificial Intelligence +43-1-5336112(Tel) Schottengasse 3, A-1010 Vienna, Austria, Europe +43-1-5320652(Fax) --------------- "Life's too short for Chess." -- Byron ------------------