Connectivity Providers Database

From: paul@frcs.alt.za (Paul Nash) To: lhl@cs.wisc.edu (L.H. Landweber) CC: randy@psg.com Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 7:33:47 SAST > randy bush suggested i check with you regarding the status of the > link to mozambique. can you tell me if it is up and, if possible, > give me the name/address of someone i can write to there. The link is to the General Union of Cooperatives in Nampula, Northern Mozambique. Contact Brad Lester (brad@ugccoop.frcs.alt.za) or ! Telephone (home) 258-6-212649 ! Telephone (off.) 258-6-212610 ! Telefax 258-6-213975 ! Best address for mail: C/O COCAMO Box 166, Maputo, Mozambique > also, can you tell me what protocol is used on the last hop. UUCP over the last _two_ hops. It's an IP connection to rain, then uucp-over-tcp to frcs, then uucp-ver-telebit-modems to ugccoop. > africa and to randy bush's machine, i am not completely sure what > role the group in ottawa plays in network forwarding to mozambique. > do they just maintain a separate private mail link? any info you can > give would be great. Doug should be able to give you more info, but basically they set everything up, act as a fall-back for the IP link, and so on, and I just provide a local connection. They mostly provide mail for US and Canadian relief/development agencies. > also, let me know if you would like to be added to my mailing list > to get a copy of the next version of the connectivity table. Yes, I would. There are a couple more places that should be coming on-line RSN (Doug has the details), plus I will probably have a link to the University of Botswana sometime this week or so. paul ---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=--- Paul Nash paul@frcs.Alt.ZA Box 12475, Onderstepoort, 0110 South Africa +27-12-5611879 "You don't want to get locked into open systems" -- IBM