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TCP-IP Digest Vol. 2 No. 05
TCP/IP Digest Wednesday, 26 Apr 1983 Volume 2 : Issue 5
Today's Topics:
The Purpose of the TCP-Digest
More on VAX/VMS TCP/IP Software
Tidbits from the latest DDN-Newsletter
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Date: 20 Apr 83 22:03:22 EST (Wed)
From: Mike Muuss <mike@brl-vgr>
To: tcp-ip at brl-vgr
Subject: The Purpose of the TCP-Digest
Just in case you were wondering what this is all about...
The TCP Digest is a moderated network mailing list. Sort of a
"do it yourself Letters-to-the-Editor" column.
The audience is fairly large, mostly protocol implementors,
system managers, communications specialists, various types of management,
and some onlookers. The intention is to have a forum to discuss
implementation details and current problems of networking (especially
the Dod Standard TCP/IP), in a much more concrete fashion than the often
"blue sky" HUMAN-NETS Digest.
Keep those cards (ugh) and letters comming!
-Mike Muuss
Moderator, TCP-Digest
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Date: 18 Apr 1983 23:04:03 EST (Monday)
From: Gail Rubin <grubin@Bbn-Unix.ARPA>
Subject: VAX Arpanet software
To: TCP-IP@BRL
The company mentioned in Joel Goldberger's message, DTI, has changed its
name to Compion. We (BBN) are currently running their software on some
of our VMS systems - the version for VMS >3. It sounds much better than
the version Joel used, but it still has a few problems - the most
serious ones are in ftp. When running from the vms as a host, it is
incredibly slow - you should always run it from the other machine (if it
isn't also a vms!). This may be just the way things are with VMS, I'm
not sure this is something Compion can get around. Also in ftp, you can
only GET one file from vms at a time - subsequent files give you error
messages so you have to re-establish the connection for each file.
Compion is working on these problems; they have already fixed one other
problem that we reported to them. On our vax unix machines here we run
our own software - that of Rob Gurwitz of our company, as also mentioned
in Joel's message. The hardware is the same in both cases - ACC's
LHDH-11.
-- Gail Rubin, (GRubin at bbn-unix)
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[ Due to the "Maximum Distribution Requested" on the front of this, I am
reproducing portions of the DEFENSE DATA NETWORK NEWSLETTER here which
concern subscription and information-distribution details, for those
who may not have seen this in a direct mailing. For those who don't
have ARPANET access, the NIC may be telephoned at (415)-859-3695. -Mike ]
DEFENSE DATA NETWORK NEWSLETTER
(Maximum Distribution Requested. The DDN Newsletter is published by the
Network Information Center under DCA contract. For subscription, contact
NIC@SRI-NIC. Back issues obtainable by FTP from the directory <DDN-NEWS>
at SRI-NIC [10.0.0.73].)
SUBSCRIPTIONS WANTED.
Along with the change in name and format, the DDN Newsletter gains a greatly
expanded role as the official means by which the DDN Program Management Office
communicates with DDN and ARPANET users. To this end, a significant increase
in circulation is sought. Two means of accomplishing this are feasible.
The first means of increasing circulation is by remailing at the host level.
This clearly is the more efficient method, and avoids building the mailing list
at the NIC into something unmanageable. Host Administrators and Technical
Liaison personnel are therefore requested, where feasible, to remail the DDN
Newsletter to all account holders on their host. Remailing is particularly
solicited for this edition of the DDN-NEWS.
The second means is by direct mailing from the NIC. Although not the desired
approach, an increase in size of the NIC mailing list is feasible within
limits. Users with accounts at hosts which cannot provide remailing of the
newsletter may, therefore, obtain a copy directly from the NIC by submitting a
request for subscription directly to NIC@SRI-NIC.
DDN-DIGEST.
Our thanks to Steve Nelson and Pete Vayda for their timely and excellent
suggestion that we begin a DDN-DIGEST, similar to the TCP-IP Digest published
by Mike Muuss, to keep you, the users, informed about the DDN and to get
feedback from you as well. To this end, we have established the mailbox
DDN-NEWS@SRI-NIC to receive questions, comments, and the like which you want
to send us. These we will incorporate in the UNOFFICIAL section of the
Newsletter (allowing for duplication) along with an answer from an appropriate
person. More on this in future Newsletters, but in the meanwhile, the mailbox
is there and ready for your use.
DARRYL HENRY
DCA Code B627
DDN-PMO System Development Branch
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