Connectivity Providers Database

Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 07:18:46 -0400 To: Steve Huter <sghuter@psg.com>, randy@psg.com (Randy Bush) From: sgoldste@nsf.gov (Steve Goldstein) Subject: Saudi connected via SURAnet to the U.S. Cc: "Eng. Nashwa Abdel-Baki, FRCU Netwk Coord." <NASHWA@egfrcuvx.bitnet>, Tarek Kamel <tkamel@ritsec.com.eg>, suhaib@ccse.kfupm.edu.sa, zougbi@attmail.com (Saleem G. Zougbi) From the forwarded message, I inferred that SA was on the net (in addition to the blurb last week about King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, URL: http://www.ccse.kfupm.edu.sa, for which I could find no DNS entry). So, I checked: NOTE1{2}=>traceroute www.kfshrc.edu.sa traceroute to kfshhub.kfshrc.edu.sa (199.75.90.34), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 gw.cise.nsf.gov (128.150.55.1) 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 2 wtn6-nsf-c1.sura.net (192.221.39.13) 6 ms 5 ms 5 ms 3 128.167.27.4 (128.167.27.4) 5 ms 5 ms 6 ms 4 wtn8-wtn4-ce.sura.net (128.167.24.8) 88 ms 6 ms 6 ms 5 cpk9-wtn8-c3.sura.net (128.167.212.1) 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms 6 cpk2-cpk-cf.sura.net (128.167.252.2) 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms 7 wcc-cpk2-c1.sura.net (192.221.61.14) 11 ms 11 ms 10 ms 8 gw.kfshrc.saudi.net (199.75.95.10) 578 ms 575 ms 577 ms 9 199.75.94.128 (199.75.94.128) 577 ms 576 ms 578 ms 10 kfshhub.kfshrc.edu.sa (199.75.90.34) 577 ms 578 ms 578 ms And, this is the Embassy in Washington (home page is http://imedl.saudi.net/): NOTE1{3}=>traceroute imedl.saudi.net traceroute to imedl.saudi.net (199.75.86.30), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 gw.cise.nsf.gov (128.150.55.1) 6 ms 4 ms 5 ms 2 wtn6-nsf-c1.sura.net (192.221.39.13) 5 ms 5 ms 6 ms 3 128.167.27.4 (128.167.27.4) 6 ms 6 ms 7 ms 4 wtn8-wtn4-ce.sura.net (128.167.24.8) 49 ms 8 ms 205 ms 5 cpk9-wtn8-c3.sura.net (128.167.212.1) 7 ms 8 ms 8 ms 6 cpk2-cpk-cf.sura.net (128.167.252.2) 8 ms 9 ms 8 ms 7 wcc-cpk2-c1.sura.net (192.221.61.14) 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms 8 * imedl.saudi.net (199.75.95.14) 11 ms * I am copying Suhaib Khan at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals to let him know of the external link. --Steve G. >Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 01:43:48 GMT >From: owner-newjour@ccat.sas.upenn.edu >Subject: Annuals of Saudi Medicine >Sender: owner-newjour@ccat.sas.upenn.edu >Precedence: bulk >Apparently-To: newjour-outgoing@ccat.sas.upenn.edu >Forwarded message: >Date: Tue, 22 Aug 95 08:06:10 SAU >From: "Dean Sittig" <dean@smtpgw.kfshrc.edu.sa> >To: ann@cni.org >Subject: Annals of Saudi Medicine > > http://www.kfshrc.edu.sa/annals/annals.html > > The Annals of Saudi Medicine is a bimonthly multidisciplinary medical > journal written in English. The Annals publishes original articles, > case reports, letters to the editor, editorials, and from time to > time, special communications, commentaries, and review articles, > dealing with aspects of clinical, academic or investigative medicine > or research. Emphasis is placed on matters relating to medicine in > Saudi Arabia in particular, and the Middle East in general, though > articles are welcome from anywhere in the world, and the Annals has > worldwide readership. The Annals is a joint project of the King Faisal > Specialist Hospital and Research Centre and the King Saud University > College of Medicine and King Khalid University Hospital. The journal > is printed at the King Saud University Press, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. > Since July 1985, the Annals has incorporated The King Faisal > Specialist Hospital Medical Journal, established in 1980. ================================================================ Steven N. Goldstein Program Director, Interagency & International Networking Coordination Div. of Networking and Communications Research & Infrastructure National Science Foundation 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Room 1175 Arlington, VA 22230 Tel: +1-703-306-1949 (Extension 1119) FAX: +1-703-306-0621 sgoldste@NSF.GOV ================================================================