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H-NET H-NET H-NET H-NET H-NET H-NET H-NET H
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E ** H-Net Magazine ** E
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H Volume One, Issue 1, File #05 of 20 H
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E Beginners Guide to JANET by Weazle. E
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H-NET H-NET H-NET H-NET H-NET H-NET H-NET H
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JANET (the Joint Academic NETwork) is a favourite hacking tool for newcomers to
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hacking - mainly because it and the computers attached to it offer you so much
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help and information which can be used to do nice things with their micros!
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Hey ho and here we go!
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The first thing that you need to do is to find a telephone access number for
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the JANET pad nearest to you. To help you do this please refer to file #6, in
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this issue of H-Net which is Hackernet BBS's latest list of such numbers and in
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some cases gives the baud rates which have been tested out on these pads.
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When you have found the telephone number that you need then set your comms
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terminal to seven bits, even parity with one stop bit (7e1). Then dial the
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telephone number (a baudrate of 2400 is sometimes catered for - but is
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unreliable on some pads). When you get the CONNECT message press your <RETURN>
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key a couple of times, if nothing happens then wait about 4 seconds then press
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the <RETURN> key two or three times again. You should now get a 'welcome'
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message (on some PADS you might now get the prompt 'Which Service?' type 'PAD'
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<RETURN>) the ypu will get a system prompt (e.g. 'PAD>'). If you do not get
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such a prompt then drop the line and reconfigure your comms s/w (you might have
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to do this a few times until you work out the proper settings as all pads do
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not work on a uniform setting - unfortunately! - but it's all good hacking
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experience anyway - trying to work out the proper settings for the target
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system.
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When you have the 'PAD>' or a similar prompt then type the following command:-
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PAD> logon f,r
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the pad isn't really all that fussy about what you use after the 'logon'
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command, 'f,r' is just an example - in practise you could use anything, most
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people use 'x,x' for some reasonh...please note that on some pads that you
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might have to type 'login' instead of 'logon'.
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What does this command do? Well it tells the JANET Pad that when you have
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called through to one of the computers connected to it's network - done your
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business then exited from that computer that you want to return to the 'PAD>'
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prompt so that you can 'CALL' other computers on the network. If you do not
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enter this command your line will be dropped when you have exited from the
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first computer on the network that you have called - and that would mean having
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to redial the pad again....yawn!
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The next command to get to grips with is the 'CALL' command. This along with a
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NETWORK ADDRESS allows you to connect to other computers on the JANET network.
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In file #7 in this issue of H-Net you will find a list of some of the computers
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that you can connect to on the JANET network along with their NETWORK address
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and/or their NETWORK mnemonic.
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The way to use the 'CALL' command is as follows :- firstly, find the NETWORK
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ADDRESS of the computer that you wish to connect to (in this example the
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Unaxcess chatboard at Bradford University which is 0000121100 ), then type the
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following at the 'PAD>' prompt :-
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PAD> call j.0000121100
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The 'j.' just tells the pad to expect a JANET address. Please note that some
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PAD managers have gotten wise to hackers using their PADs to gain access to
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systems on the JANET network, in these cases they might have changed the format
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of the 'CALL' command around a little bit - usually by making it so that the
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'.' after the 'j' in the above example is no longer required - on such systems
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the 'CALL' command should be :-
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PAD> call j0000121100
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On some PADs there is on online help facility - to make use of this just type:-
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PAD> help
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you should get a response similar to this :-
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Help knows about :-
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ADDRESS TARIFFS STATUS
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The address helpfile is usually quite useful - to get this type :-
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PAD> help address
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then a nice list of network mnemonics available from that PAD might start
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scrolling down your screen. Mnemonics can be used instead of the NETWORK
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ADDRESSES previously mentioned. For instance if we wanted to call the
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Lancaster Universities' PD software computer system use the following call
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command :-
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PAD> call lancs.pdsoft
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It is just a nice way to be able to access the systems on the network as they
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cannot expect the average student or lecturer to remember the 10 or 14 digit
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NETWORK ADDRESSES which prevail on the JANET system!
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When you have entered your 'CALL' command you should get a response such as
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'connecting..' if you just get garbage then you might need to change the
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configuration of your terminal. For instance if you call the pad using 7e1
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then when you call an address and just get garbage then quickly switch to 8n1
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and press return once - you should then get some sense out of the computer that
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you have requested access to (usually a 'login:' or similar prompt). If this
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does not work then keep on changing your settings until you do get in.
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From here on in it will be just like calling the target computer direct, except
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that when you exit from the computer you will be returned to the 'PAD>' prompt
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again (if you remembered to enter your 'logon' command!), again - if you just
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get garbage after terminating your session on a computer on the JANET network
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then you will need to reset the configuration of your comms s/w / terminal to
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what it originally was when you first called the PAD.
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Well, that just about sums it up I guess - this should be all you need to know
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about using the JANET system and pads - the little quirks it has and so on. The
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best thing about JANET in my eyes is that (usually for the price of a local
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call) you can get into computers all over the world, belonging to mainly
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educational establishments but also defence and other organisations! The main
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type of computers that you will find on JANET are VAX, UNIX and PRIME with a
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splattering of other systems here and there.
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I hope that this file has been of help to you - if you have any new information
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about JANET in general or some of the systems available through it then please
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e-mail me 'WEAZLE' on the Hackernet BBS.
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WEAZLE.
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===============================================================================
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[Hackernet BBS,LEEDS,UK(0532)557739, 24hrs. Home of H-Net Hacking magazine]
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