MSUS Twin Cities Dial-in Access


The Minnesota State Universities maintain a pool of 28.8kbs modems located in the Twin Cities local calling area which is available for use by their Staff, Faculty, and Students.

Dial-in Setup Information
Phone Number: 651-643-2121
Userid: userid@host.campusdomain.edu
(i.e. foobar@MavMail.MNSU.EDU)
List of Authentication Hosts
Userid Password: The password for the userid on 'host.campusdomain.edu'.
IP Address: assigned by dial-in server
Network or Subnet Mask: assigned by dial-in server
Router or Gateway Address: assigned by dial-in server
Primary DNS: 199.17.255.1
Secondary DNS: 199.17.241.241
Domain Name: Your campus domain
(i.e. MNSU.EDU)
E-Mail Address Campus specific
E-Mail account: Campus specific
E-Mail Account Password: Campus specific
IMAP (Mail Server) Campus specific
POP3 (Mail Server) Campus specific
SMTP Server SMTP.MSUS.EDU
WWW Home Page: WWW.MSUS.EDU
Or your local campus web address.
NNTP (News Server) Campus specific
NTP (Time Server) NIC.MSUS.EDU
Or your local campus time server

With the above information, you should be able to configure most Internet software packages to dial into the MSUS Dial-in server. Some of the terminology may be different or the package may have more or less information to configure. In most cases the documentation that comes with the package should help you determine the proper settings.


If you have any other questions, concerns, or problems, please send to info@msus.edu.
Last updated 2003-03-26, by dlk.