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ARNET - Argentine Science Network
_A_d_d_r_e_s_s:
UNDP Project ARG-86-026
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto
Reconquista 1088 1er. Piso - Informatica
(1003) Capital Federal
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Attention: Jorge Marcelo Amodio (NIC JMA49)
_E_m_a_i_l: noc-arnet@atina.ar
or postmaster@atina.ar
_P_h_o_n_e: (+541) 313-8082
Fax: (+541) 814-4824
_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n
ARNET, a TCP/IP network connected to the Internet, is the
major science and research network of Argentina. It con-
nects approximately three hundred sites, mainly universities
and research organizations. ARNET provides electronic mail,
USENET News, file server, and electronic mailing list ser-
vices.
Like other cooperative networks, ARNET has no central plan-
ning or central authority. The current international link
and the top-level AR domain are managed by the UNDP (United
Nations Development Programme), Project ARG-86-026, at the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MREC), together with the Secre-
tariat of Science and Technology (SECYT). For the time
being, the top-level subdomains are administered by the
UNDP/MREC project.
ARNET is a store-and-forward message network based on the
Unix communications facilities. The international elec-
tronic mail gateway and USENET news backbone, atina.ar, is a
'386 machine running Unix System V connected to the MREC
Local Area Network. The network is connected to the Inter-
net through a satellite link to SURANet at the University of
_________________________
The information in this section is provided in accor-
dance with the copyright notice appearing at the front
of this guide.
July 26, 1991 NNSC Section 5.43, Page 1
Maryland.
Most ARNET connections are over the public telephone network
or the public packet-switching network, ARPAC, using the
UUCP protocol in different environments. USENET news and
most electronic mail traffic is brought to ARNET from
uunet.uu.net via Internet.
Several major nodes, such as secyt.gov.ar (Secretaria de
Ciencia y Tecnologia), dcfcen.edu.ar (Departamento de Compu-
tacion, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universi-
dad de Buenos Aires), and opsarg.org.ar (Organizacion Panam-
ericana de la Salud), call atina.ar over telephone lines,
PSN ARPAC, or leased lines to distribute mail and news
traffic to other nodes. Many nodes use various implementa-
tions of UUCP for MS-DOS with limited functionality.
Future plans
There is a cooperation agreement between the UNDP/MREC pro-
ject and the SECYT to distribute Internet services. The
first stage will be the installation of a couple of Unix
boxes at major regional sites, interconnected through the
PSN ARPAC and national satellite links using UUCP. The
second stage will be the migration from UUCP to TCP/IP.
There are under study different ways to distribute Internet
services throughout the country, and to upgrade the interna-
tional link to the Internet.
_N_e_t_w_o_r_k _A_c_c_e_s_s
ARNET's IP number is 140.191. Several bits of the address
are reserved for subnetting. The subnet mask is
255.255.254.0.
The current MX-host for the AR domain is uunet.uu.net.
Domain Name Service for AR domain is served by NS.UU.NET and
UUCP-GW-1.PA.DEC.COM. Most systems on ARNET use the Inter-
net addressing scheme and the UUCP bang notation.
Top-level-domain: AR (Argentina)
Internet: user@node.subdomain.ar
UUCP: uunet!atina!node.subdomain.ar!user or uunet!atina!node!user
There are several top-level subdomains. Provincial sub-
domains are used when sites don't apply for organizational
subdomains.
July 26, 1991 NNSC Section 5.43, Page 2
edu.ar Academic and research institutions
org.ar Non profit organizations
gov.ar Government institutions and agencies
com.ar Commercial organizations
mil.ar Military institutions
mrec.ar Ministry of Foreign Affairs Network
ba.ar Buenos Aires
cb.ar Cordoba
cc.ar Chaco
ch.ar Chubut
cn.ar Corrientes
ct.ar Catamarca
er.ar Entre Rios
fm.ar Formosa
jy.ar Jujuy
lp.ar La Pampa
lr.ar La Rioja
mn.ar Misiones
mz.ar Mendoza
nq.ar Neuquen
rn.ar Rio Negro
sa.ar Salta
sc.ar Santa Cruz
se.ar Santiago del Estero
sf.ar Santa Fe
sj.ar San Juan
sl.ar San Luis
tf.ar Tierra del Fuego
tm.ar Tucuman
_M_i_s_c_e_l_l_a_n_e_o_u_s _I_n_f_o_r_m_a_t_i_o_n
ARNET UUCP maps are available from USENET News or
uunet.uu.net. The maps are organized by provinces. It will
be available for anonymous ftp from "atina.ar"
(140.191.2.2).
July 26, 1991 NNSC Section 5.43, Page 3