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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet - Ed Krol
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Title: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet
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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE INTERNET ***
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Internet
25 August 1987
Ed Krol
krol@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu
This document was produced through funding of the National
Science Foundation.
Copyright (C) 1987, by the Board of Trustees of The University of Illinois. Permission to duplicate this document, in whole or part, is granted provided reference is made to the source and this copyright is included in whole copies.
This document assumes that one is familiar with the workings of a non-connected simple IP network (e.g. a few 4.2 BSD systems on an Ethernet not connected to anywhere else). Appendix A contains remedial information to get one to this point. Its purpose is to get that person, familiar with a simple net, versed in the oral tradition
of the Internet to the point that that net can be connected to the Internet with little danger to either. It is not a tutorial, it consists of pointers to other places, literature, and hints which are not normally documented. Since the Internet is a dynamic environment, changes to this document will be made regularly. The author welcomes comments and suggestions. This is especially true of terms for the glossary (definitions are not necessary).
In the beginning there was the ARPAnet, a wide area experimental network connecting hosts and terminal servers together. Procedures were set up to regulate the allocation of addresses and to create voluntary standards for the network. As local area networks became more pervasive, many hosts became gateways to local networks. A network layer to allow the interoperation of these networks was developed and called IP (Internet Protocol). Over time other groups created long haul IP based networks (NASA, NSF, states…). These nets, too, interoperate because of IP. The collection of all of these interoperating networks is the Internet.
Two groups do much of the research and information work of the Internet (ISI and SRI). ISI (the Informational Sciences Institute) does much of the research, standardization, and allocation work of the Internet. SRI International provides information services for the Internet. In fact, after you are connected to the Internet most of the information in this document can be retrieved from the Network Information Center (NIC) run by SRI.
Operating the Internet
Each network, be it the ARPAnet, NSFnet or a regional network,
has its own operations center. The ARPAnet is run by
BBN, Inc. under contract from DARPA. Their facility is
called the Network Operations Center or NOC. Cornell
University temporarily operates NSFnet (called the Network
Information Service Center,