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Where and how to get new RFCs
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RFCs may be obtained via EMAIL or FTP from many RFC Repositories. The
Primary Repositories will have the RFC available when it is first
announced, as will many Secondary Repositories. Some Secondary
Repositories may take a few days to make available the most recent
RFCs.
Many of these repositories also now have World Wide Web servers. Try
the following URL as a starting point:
http://www.isi.edu/rfc-editor/
Primary Repositories:
RFCs can be obtained via FTP from DS.INTERNIC.NET, NIS.NSF.NET,
NISC.JVNC.NET, FTP.ISI.EDU, WUARCHIVE.WUSTL.EDU, SRC.DOC.IC.AC.UK,
FTP.NCREN.NET, FTP.SESQUI.NET, or NIS.GARR.IT.
1. DS.INTERNIC.NET - InterNIC Directory and Database Services
RFC's may be obtained from DS.INTERNIC.NET via FTP, WAIS, and
electronic mail. Through FTP, RFC's are stored as rfc/rfcnnnn.txt or
rfc/rfcnnnn.ps where 'nnnn' is the RFC number. Login as "anonymous"
and provide your e-mail address as the password. Through WAIS, you
may use either your local WAIS client or telnet to DS.INTERNIC.NET and
login as "wais" (no password required) to access a WAIS client. Help
information and a tutorial for using WAIS are available online. The
WAIS database to search is "rfcs".
Directory and Database Services also provides a mail server
interface. Send a mail message to mailserv@ds.internic.net and
include any of the following commands in the message body:
document-by-name rfcnnnn where 'nnnn' is the RFC number
The text version is sent.
file /ftp/rfc/rfcnnnn.yyy where 'nnnn' is the RFC number.
and 'yyy' is 'txt' or 'ps'.
help to get information on how to use
the mailserver.
The InterNIC Directory and Database Services Collection of Resource
Listings, Internet Documents such as RFCs, FYIs, STDs, and Internet
Drafts, and Publically Accessible Databases are also now available via
Gopher. All our collections are waisindexed and can be searched from
the Gopher menu.
To access the InterNIC Gopher Servers, please connect to
"internic.net" port 70.
contact: admin@ds.internic.net
2. NIS.NSF.NET
To obtain RFCs from NIS.NSF.NET via FTP, login with username
"anonymous" and password "guest"; then connect to the directory of
RFCs with cd /internet/documents/rfc. The file name is of the form
rfcnnnn.txt (where "nnnn" refers to the RFC number).
For sites without FTP capability, electronic mail query is available
from NIS.NSF.NET. Address the request to NIS-INFO@NIS.NSF.NET and
leave the subject field of the message blank. The first text line of
the message must be "send rfcnnnn.txt" with nnnn the RFC number.
contact: rfc-mgr@merit.edu
3. NISC.JVNC.NET
RFCs can also be obtained via FTP from NISC.JVNC.NET, with the
pathname rfc/rfcNNNN.txt (where "NNNN" refers to the number of the
RFC). An index can be obtained with the pathname rfc/rfc-index.txt
JvNCnet also provides a mail service for those sites which cannot use
FTP. Address the request to "SENDRFC@NISC.JVNC.NET" and in the
"Subject:" field of the message indicate the RFC number, as in
"Subject: rfcNNNN" (where NNNN is the RFC number). Please note that
RFCs whose numbers are less than 1000 need not place a leading "0".
(For example, RFC932 is fine.) For a complete index to the RFC
library, enter "rfc-index" in the "Subject:" field, as in "Subject:
rfc-index". No text in the body of the message is needed.
contact: rfc-admin@nisc.jvnc.net
4. FTP.ISI.EDU
RFCs can be obtained via FTP from FTP.ISI.EDU, with the pathname
in-notes/rfcnnnn.txt (where "nnnn" refers to the number of the RFC).
Login with FTP username "anonymous" and password "guest".
RFCs can also be obtained via electronic mail from ISI.EDU by using
the RFC-INFO service. Address the request to "rfc-info@isi.edu" with
a message body of:
Retrieve: RFC
Doc-ID: RFCnnnn
(Where "nnnn" refers to the number of the RFC (always use 4 digits -
the DOC-ID of RFC 822 is "RFC0822")). The RFC-INFO@ISI.EDU server
provides other ways of selecting RFCs based on keywords and such; for
more information send a message to "rfc-info@isi.edu" with the message
body "help: help".
contact: RFC-Manager@ISI.EDU
5. WUARCHIVE.WUSTL.EDU
RFCs can also be obtained via FTP from WUARCHIVE.WUSTL.EDU, with the
pathname info/rfc/rfcnnnn.txt.Z (where "nnnn" refers to the number of the
RFC and "Z" indicates that the document is in compressed form).
At WUARCHIVE.WUSTL.EDU the RFCs are in an "archive" file system and
various archives can be mounted as part of an NFS file system.
Please contact Chris Myers (chris@wugate.wustl.edu) if you want to
mount this file system in your NFS.
contact: chris@wugate.wustl.edu
6. SRC.DOC.IC.AC.UK
RFCs can be obtained via FTP from SRC.DOC.IC.AC.UK with the pathname
rfc/rfcnnnn.txt.gz or rfc/rfcnnnn.ps.gz (where "nnnn" refers to the
number of the RFC). Login with FTP username "anonymous" and password
"your-email-address". To obtain the RFC Index, use the pathname
rfc/rfc-index.txt.gz. (The trailing .gz indicates that the document is
in compressed form.)
SRC.DOC.IC.AC.UK also provides an automatic mail service for those
sites in the UK which cannot use FTP. Address the request to
info-server@doc.ic.ac.uk with a Subject: line of "wanted" and a
message body of:
request sources
topic path rfc/rfcnnnn.txt.gz
request end
(Where "nnnn" refers to the number of the RFC.) Multiple requests may
be included in the same message by giving multiple "topic path"
commands on separate lines. To request the RFC Index, the command
should read: topic path rfc/rfc-index.txt.gz
The archive is also available using NIFTP and the ISO FTAM system.
contact: ukuug-soft@doc.ic.ac.uk
7. FTP.NCREN.NET
To obtain RFCs from FTP.NCREN.NET via FTP, login with username
"anonymous" and your internet e-mail address as password. The RFCs
can be found in the directory /rfc, with file names of the form:
rfcNNNN.txt or rfcNNNN.ps where NNNN refers to the RFC number.
This repository is also accessible via WAIS and the Internet Gopher.
contact: rfc-mgr@ncren.net
8. FTP.SESQUI.NET
RFCs can be obtained via FTP from FTP.SESQUI.NET, with the pathname
pub/rfc/rfcnnnn.xxx (where "nnnn" refers to the number of the RFC and
xxx indicates the document form, txt for ASCII and ps for Postscript).
At FTP.SESQUI.NET the RFCs are in an "archive" file system and
various archives can be mounted as part of an NFS file system.
Please contact RFC-maintainer (rfc-maint@sesqui.net) if you want to
mount this file system in your NFS.
contact: rfc-maint@sesqui.net
9. NIS.GARR.IT
RFCs can be obtained from NIS.GARR.IT FTP archive with the pathname
mirrors/RFC/rfcnnnn.txt (where "nnnn" refers to the number of the
RFC). Login with FTP, username "anonymous" and password "guest".
Summary of ways to get RFC from GARR-NIS ftp archive:
Via ftp: ftp.nis.garr.it directory mirrors/RFC
Via gopher: gopher.nis.garr.it folders
GARR-NIS anonymous FTP
"ftp.nis.garr.it"
mirrors
RFC
Via WWW: ftp://ftp.nis.garr.it/mirrors/RFC
Via e-mail: send a mail to dbserv@nis.garr.it whose body
contains "get mirrors/RFC/rfc<number>.[txt,ps]".
To get via electronic mail a file in the ftp archive, put the get
<fullpathname> command either in the subject or as a mail body line of
a mail message sent to dbserv@nis.garr.it. <fullpathname> must be the
concatenation of two strings, the directory path and the filename.
Remember: use uppercase and lowercase exactly! The directory path is
listed at the beginning of each block of files.
Example: to get RFC1004...the command should be:
get mirrors/RFC/rfc1004.txt.
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Secondary Repositories:
Sweden
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Host: sunic.sunet.se
Directory: rfc
Host: chalmers.se
Directory: rfc
Germany
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Site: EUnet Germany
Host: ftp.Germany.EU.net
Directory: pub/documents/rfc
France
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Site: Institut National de la Recherche en
Informatique et Automatique (INRIA)
Address: info-server@inria.fr
Notes: RFCs are available via email to the above
address. Info Server manager is Mireille
Yamajako (yamajako@inria.fr).
Netherlands
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Site: EUnet
Host: mcsun.eu.net
Directory: rfc
Notes: RFCs in compressed format.
France
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Site: Centre d'Informatique Scientifique et Medicale
(CISM)
Contact: ftpmaint@univ-lyon1.fr
Host: ftp.univ-lyon1.fr
Directories: pub/rfc/* Classified by hundreds
pub/mirrors/rfc Mirror of Internic
Notes: Files compressed with gzip. Online
decompression done by the FTP server.
Finland
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Site: FUNET
Host: nic.funet.fi
Directory: index/RFC
Directory: /pub/doc/networking/documents/rfc
Notes: RFCs in compressed format. Also provides
email access by sending mail to
archive-server@nic.funet.fi.
Norway
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Host: ugle.unit.no
Directory: pub/rfc
Denmark
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Site: University of Copenhagen
Host: ftp.denet.dk
Directory: rfc
Australia and Pacific Rim
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Site: munnari
Contact: Robert Elz <kre@cs.mu.OZ.AU>
Host: munnari.oz.au
Directory: rfc
rfc's in compressed format rfcNNNN.Z
postscript rfc's rfcNNNN.ps.Z
Site: The Programmers' Society
University of Technology, Sydney
Contact: ftp@progsoc.uts.edu.au
Host: ftp.progsoc.uts.edu.au
Directory: rfc (or std).
Both are stored uncompressed.
South Africa
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Site: The Internet Solution
Contact: ftp-admin@is.co.za
Host: ftp.is.co.za
Directory: internet/in-notes/rfc
United States
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Site: cerfnet
Contact: help@cerf.net
Host: nic.cerf.net
Directory: netinfo/rfc
Site: NASA NAIC
Contact: rfc-updates@naic.nasa.gov
Host: naic.nasa.gov
Directory: files/rfc
Site: NIC.MIL (DOD users only)
Contact: NIC@nic.mil
Host: NIC.MIL
Directory: rfc/rfcnnnn.txt
Note: DOD users only may obtain RFC's via FTP
from NIC.MIL. Internet users should NOT
use this source due to inadequate connectivity.
Site: uunet
Contact: James Revell <revell@uunet.uu.net>
Host: ftp.uu.net
Directory: inet/rfc
UUNET Archive
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UUNET archive, which includes the RFC's, various IETF documents,
and other information regarding the internet, is available to the
public via anonymous ftp (to ftp.uu.net) and anonymous uucp, and
will be available via an anonymous kermit server soon. Get the
file /archive/inet/ls-lR.Z for a listing of these documents.
Any site in the US running UUCP may call +1 900 GOT SRCS and use
the login "uucp". There is no password. The phone company will
bill you at $0.50 per minute for the call. The 900 number only
works from within the US.
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Requests for special distribution of RFCs should be addressed to
either the author of the RFC in question or to RFC-Manager@ISI.EDU.
Submissions for Requests for Comments should be sent to
RFC-EDITOR@ISI.EDU. Please consult "Instructions to RFC Authors",
RFC 1543, for further information.
Requests to be added to or deleted from the RFC distribution list should
be sent to RFC-REQUEST@ISI.EDU.
Users with .MIL addresses may send a request to MAJORDOMO@NIC.MIL
with an empty Subject: line and a message: subscribe rfc [your email
address].
Changes to this file "rfc-retrieval.txt" should be sent to
RFC-MANAGER@ISI.EDU.
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