Knowbot Information Service
Knowbot Information Service
(networking, information science)There are several interfaces to the KIS service includingelectronic mail and telnet. Another KIS interfaceimitates the Berkeley whois command.
KIS consists of two distinct types of modules which interactwith each other (typically across a network) to provide theservice. One module is a user agent module that runs on theKIS mail host machine. The second module is a remote servermodule (possibly on a different machine) that interrogatesvarious database services across the network and provides theresults to the user agent module in a uniform fashion.Interactions between the two modules can be via messagesbetween Knowbots or by actual movement of Knowbots.
There are electronic mail interfaces for KIS at the hostscnri.reston.va.us and sol.bucknell.edu. Send a messagecontaining just the word "man" to