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- DDN MGT Bulletin 120 DISA DDN Defense Communications System
- 24 March 1993 Published by: DDN Network Info Center
- (NIC@NIC.DDN.MIL) (800) 365-3642
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- DEFENSE DATA NETWORK
- MANAGEMENT BULLETIN
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- The DDN MANAGEMENT BULLETIN is distributed online by the DDN Network
- Information Center under DISA contract as a means of communicating
- official policy, procedures and other information of concern to
- management personnel at DDN facilities. Back issues may be read
- through the TACNEWS server ("@n" command at the TAC) or may be
- obtained by FTP (or Kermit) from the NIC.DDN.MIL host [192.112.36.5]
- using login="anonymous" and password="guest". The pathname
- for bulletins is ddn-news/ddn-mgt-bulletin-nn.txt (where "nn" is the
- bulletin number).
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- Transition of the Internet Registration Services
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- As a result of the NREN NIS award by the National Science Foundation, non-DOD
- registration services will shortly be transferred from the DOD NIC to the
- new Internet Registration Service, which is a part of a service referred
- to as the InterNIC. Internet Registration Services (which include the
- registration of Internet Domains, Internet IP Network Numbers, and Internet
- Autonomous System Numbers) are gradually transitioning from the DOD NIC to
- the InterNIC. The transition is expected to be completed by April 1, 1993.
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- DOD USERS WILL CONTINUE TO RECEIVE FULL REGISTRATION AND HELP DESK SERVICES
- FROM THE DOD NIC, AND THE TRANSITION SHOULD NOT AFFECT THEM IN ANY RESPECT.
- DOD users should continue to send registration requests to
- hostmaster@nic.ddn.mil (IP, .mil domain, inaddr for 26.x.x.x) or
- registrar@nic.ddn.mil (user registrations or TAC card requests) using
- the DISA approved registration forms. The DOD NIC Help Desk Number
- remains (800) 365-DNIC.
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- After the transition, the hosts.txt file will continue to be available from
- nic.ddn.mil, but it will include only MILNET hosts, gateways, and networks.
- Currently, less than 1% of all Internet hosts are contained in the hosts.txt
- file.
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- Please refer to RFC 1400 for more details about the InterNIC services.
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- Please direct any questions about this transition to nic@nic.ddn.mil.
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