# Useful Gateways and Services

Locate Athena users using the `zlocate` program.
  Zephyr is a distributing messaging system developed at MIT available from athena-dist. This gateway allows you to locate where on the Athena distributed network a user is logged in. For example, you can see if any of the webmasters are currently logged in.
Get current weather information and Boston forecast
  This is a point and click map of the US which will then retrieve current weather conditions and forecasts for that location.
Athena and SIPB AFS cells
  AFS is a the Andrew File System, a distributed file system used at MIT and dozens of other sites. The SIPB maintains an AFS cell of its own and exports the SIPB and Athena cells to the web.
Interface to Amateur Radio Callsigns database
  Interface to the University of Buffalo ham radio callsign database, written by N1DPU, aka Mark Eichin
Interface to the `cview` program
  Cview displays information on free Athena workstations broken down by location
A brand-new Discuss gateway
  Newly redone, with lots of cool icons and stuff.
Geographic Nameserver database
  This gateway allows you to look up geographic information about US locations, such as lat/long, population, zip code, county and lots more.
Some logs and statistics for this server.
  At the moment, just usage growth over time.
The MITSFS Pinkdex
  An on-line index of the MIT Science Fiction Society library, the largest science fiction collection in the world.
The Freshman Fishwrap
  Fishwrap is a personalized newspaper project provided by the News in the Future group at the MIT Media Laboratory. (MIT only)
OLC Stock Answers to Common Questions
  The Online Consultants answers to common questions. Includes answers to many questions about using Athena.
The Virtual Tourist.
  A map of maps of web resources
MIT Student and Staff Directory.
  A gateway to the MIT PhoneBook server, with information on MIT staff and students.
Eric Richard's Sports Information Service
  Contains thorough up to date information about sports scores, rosters and standings. Currently only contains basketball information.
MIT floorplans.
  Eytan Adar presents MIT floorplans available for viewing. MIT community only.
A finger gateway
  This gateway will return useful finger information for as many places as possible. If you know of a place where it isn't as useful as it could be, let us know. Right now, querying athena.dialup.mit.edu is a way to demonstrate one of the nifty features.
A machine information gateway
  This gateway provides DNS information about hostnames, and can handle queries for hostnames which involve odd DNS hacks, like www.ncsa.uiuc.edu.
SIPB documents
  Information on everything from AFS, to Linux, to Zephyr, to SIPB itself.