 |
 |
||
 |
||
 |
||
|
|
|
|
Using zephyr with people at OTHER SCHOOLS It is possible to zephyr people at some other schools and organizations, including, in particular, Carnegie Mellon University. For example, if the other person is in the zephyr realm ANDREW.CMU.EDU, you can send him a zephyr by typing zwrite username@ANDREW.CMU.EDU, and he can respond back with zwrite username@ATHENA.MIT.EDU. A full explanation of the situation follows below. You can also use the Unix "talk" command to converse with users on other Unix systems. To find more information on the "talk" command please refer to the stock answer under NETWORKS. Alternately, you can use "gaim" to communicate with users of AIM, ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, Jabber, and IRC. For more information on using gaim, please see the stock answer "How can I use AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), ICQ, MSN Messenger, or Yahoo Messenger on Athena?" under NETWORKS. Zephyr is divided into realms (sometimes called galaxies). Each zephyr realm has a native kerberos realm. Zephyr realms can be set up to allow subscriptions from each other by having the zephyr servers talk to each other. Some common zephyr realms that talk to each other (by kerberos domain): ATHENA.MIT.EDU ANDREW.CMU.EDU CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU CS.CMU.EDU DEMENTIA.ORG IASTATE.EDU SNURGLE.ORG You can use zstat to figure out which server (and therefore realm) a given machine is talking to and which other realms that server knows about. One thing to note is that "inter-realm" zephyr communication is not transitive. Even though ATHENA.MIT.EDU communicates with CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU, and CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU communicates with EECS.HARVARD.EDU, ATHENA.MIT.EDU and EECS.HARVARD.EDU users cannot send personal messages to each other. joe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU can't send a zephyr to bob@EECS.HARVARD.EDU either directly, or via CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU Last updated: $Date: 2005/01/09 16:13:54 $ |
