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- NIC.DDN.MIL - DDN Network Information Center
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- _A_d_d_r_e_s_s:
- DDN Network Information Center
- Suite 200
- 14200 Park Meadow Drive
- Chantilly, VA 22021
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- _E_m_a_i_l: NIC@NIC.DDN.MIL (for general user questions)
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- _P_h_o_n_e: 1-800-365-DNIC
- (703) 802-4535
- FAX: (703) 802-8376
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- _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n
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- The Network Information Center (NIC) is located in Chan-
- tilly, VA, and is managed by Network Solutions of Herndon,
- VA (as sub-contractors to Government Services, Inc.) The NIC
- host computer is a SUN 470 which runs the SUN 4.2 operating
- System. The NICs hostname is NIC.DDN.MIL and its Internet
- address is 192.112.36.5. The NIC provides general user ser-
- vices via telephone, electronic mail, and U.S. postal mail.
- The NIC operates a toll free telephone service Monday
- through Friday from 7AM to 7PM Eastern Standard Time. In
- addition to the telephone service, the NIC maintains several
- role mail boxes to answer user questions via E-mail. The
- telephone numbers and mail boxes are listed below:
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- Toll-Free: 1-800-365-3642
- International: 1-703-802-4535
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- NIC's Role Mailbox Accounts:
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- NIC@NIC.DDN.MIL General user assistance, document
- requests
- REGISTRAR@NIC.DDN.MIL User registration and whois updates
- HOSTMASTER@NIC.DDN.MIL Host, domain, network changes
- and updates
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- The information in this section is provided in accor-
- dance with the copyright notice appearing at the front
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- July 8, 1992 NNSC Section 6.2, Page 1
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- ACTION@NIC.DDN.MIL NIC Computer Operations
- SUGGESTIONS@NIC.DDN.MIL Comments on NIC Services
- SERVICE@NIC.DDN.MIL Automatic mail service
- SCC@NIC.DDN.MIL General Security related informa-
- tion and support
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- The NIC works closely with network Host Administrators, Node
- Site Coordinators, domain administrators, network coordina-
- tors, network protocol groups, vendors, contractors, govern-
- ment agencies, and military sponsors to assist new users and
- potential subscribers in obtaining pertinent network infor-
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- The NIC provides databases and information servers of
- interest to network users, including the WHOIS "white pages"
- registry, the NIC/Query browsing system, TACNEWS, and the
- official DoD Host Name Service. The NIC is the source for
- official DDN protocol documents (other than the MIL-STDs),
- as well as other DDN documents, and maintains the RFC
- (Request for Comments) collection. Many of the online files
- are available through the NIC's automatic mail service,
- SERVICE@NIC.DDN.MIL.
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- The NIC registers hosts and domains, assigns IP network
- numbers and Autonomous System Numbers, and provides hostname
- translation tables and domain name system server files to
- the DDN Internet. The NIC also registers network users and
- issues MILNET TAC access cards.
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- ONLINE FILES
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- The NIC maintains many online files that are available to
- network subscribers via the file transfer protocol (FTP) or
- Kermit. These files contain information about protocols,
- site personnel, hosts, and other subjects relevant to net-
- work users. See the file netinfo/00netinfo-index.txt for an
- index to the files in the netinfo directory. See also the
- DDN New User Guide or contact the NIC User Assistance ser-
- vice for more information. Other publicly accessible direc-
- tories include PROTOCOLS, RFC, IEN, SCC, and DDN-NEWS. Each
- of these directories has an index in the format
- 00directory-index.txt or directory-index.txt in order to
- allow users to quickly identify the files they need.
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- REGISTRATION SERVICES
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- The NIC is responsible for the registration of users, hosts,
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- domains, IP network numbers, and autonomous systems numbers
- (ASNs) for organizations connected to the DDN Internet.
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- To register a new user with the NIC, send a request to
- registrar@nic.ddn.mil, the NIC's role mailbox for user
- registrations. The template for user registration data can
- be found in the online file netinfo/user-template.txt. The
- NIC registers users from the Military Community, primarily
- by accepting and processing templates from MILNET host
- administrators. These requests often involve TAC Access--
- i.e., dialup access to a MILNET host via a Terminal Access
- Controller. The NIC issues and distributes TAC Access Cards
- to users who require the service. In general, the NIC
- registers users from the Internet community only if they are
- POCs for a domain or a network.
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- To include a new host in the DDN Internet Host Table, an
- administrator must complete the template found in
- netinfo/ihost-template.txt file and return it to
- HOSTMASTER@NIC.DDN.MIL. To be included in the Host Table, a
- host must act as a domain or IN-ADDR server, be a gateway,
- or be essential for mail routing.
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- Twice weekly, host information is generated into the DDN
- Internet Host Table as netinfo/hosts.txt, which is a listing
- of the hosts, gateways, and networks attached to the Inter-
- net and registered with the NIC. From this file, two addi-
- tional files are generated: hosts.txt.Z, a UNIX compressed
- version of the hosts.txt file; and mil-hosts.txt, a complete
- listing of MILNET hosts from the hosts.txt file.
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- Domains are registered via the domain template found in the
- NIC online file netinfo/domain-template.txt. New domain
- information is installed in the seven DNS root servers twice
- weekly. Information on the root servers is kept in
- netinfo/root-servers.txt. The domains registered with the
- NIC are listed in netinfo/domain-info.txt. A listing of the
- netaddresses of the domain servers for individual top-level
- domains can be found in netinfo/domains.txt.
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- To obtain an IP network number assignment, a network POC
- must complete the template in netinfo/internet-number-
- template.txt and returns the template to HOSTMASTER. The
- file netinfo/networks.txt contains a complete list of
- government-sponsored networks.
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- Address-to-hostname inverse resolution is accomplished via
- IN-ADDR domains, which are registered in the domain root
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- servers via an IN-ADDR template sent to the HOSTMASTER mail-
- box. This template is located in the file netinfo/inaddr-
- template.txt.
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- To obtain an autonomous system numbers (ASNs) assignment, a
- user must complete the template found in netinfo/asn-
- template.txt and submit it to HOSTMASTER@NIC.DDN.MIL.
- Assigned ASNs are listed in netinfo/asn.txt.
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- POC information on individuals who are not already
- registered with the NIC is extracted from domain, network,
- and ASN templates and automatically placed in the WHOIS
- database.
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- _W_h_o _C_a_n _U_s_e _t_h_e _R_e_s_o_u_r_c_e
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- Anyone who is connected to the Internet can use the NIC's
- WHOIS services or obtain its public netinfo files via FTP.
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- _M_i_s_c_e_l_l_a_n_e_o_u_s
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- The NIC maintains various mailing lists. Information can be
- obtained from its User Assistance personnel as described
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- _S_u_p_p_l_e_m_e_n_t_a_r_y _D_o_c_u_m_e_n_t_s _o_n _n_n_s_c._n_s_f._n_e_t
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- WHAT-THE-NIC-DOES.TXT available in the netinfo directory.
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- References Available on the Internet:
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- The NIC has Requests For Comment (RFCs), Internet Engineer-
- ing Notes (IENs), For Your Information (FYI) documents, and
- other miscellaneous network resource and reference files
- available in its netinfo, rfc, and ien directories.
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