Connectivity Providers Database

Date: Sun, 2 Oct 94 09:43 PDT From: randy (Randy Bush) To: Tony Rutkowski <amr@isoc.org> Cc: Chand Samartunga <chand@lanka.net>, Saman Amarasinghe <saman@wildhog.stanford.edu> Subject: TCP/IP link to Sri Lanka On 7 September 1994, a part-time scheduled TCP/IP link to Sri Lanka was commissioned. The connection is by Lanka Internet Services, Ltd., an open provider, i.e. academic, commercial, NGO, ... are all welcome. LISL is in the process of providing a higher speed dedicated link. Within Sri Lanka, LISL currently provides the full range of dialup PPP/SLIP services, as well as dedicated lines, POPmail with DOS/Mac clients, ... The impetus and initial funding came from Sri Lankans residing in the US, students and ex-pat engineers who wanted to do their part to contribute to building networking for Sri Lanka. The link uses WorldBlazers in V.32bis mode between Morning Star PPP on SunOS 4.1.3 (LK) and a BSDI system (US). The LK end occasionally tells the US end to change the destination number in LK, as telephone services in LK are in a state of flux. This bit of cruft turns out to work rather well. For information, write to info@lanka.net, call +94 (7) 230 469, or surf http://www.lanka.net/. randy