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- ARNET - Argentine Science Network
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- _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)
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- _E_m_a_i_l: noc-arnet@atina.ar
- or postmaster@atina.ar
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- _P_h_o_n_e: (+541) 313-8082
- Fax: (+541) 814-4824
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- _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n
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- 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-
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- 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.
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- 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
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- The information in this section is provided in accor-
- dance with the copyright notice appearing at the front
- of this guide.
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- July 26, 1991 NNSC Section 5.43, Page 1
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Future plans
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- 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.
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- _N_e_t_w_o_r_k _A_c_c_e_s_s
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- ARNET's IP number is 140.191. Several bits of the address
- are reserved for subnetting. The subnet mask is
- 255.255.254.0.
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- 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
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- There are several top-level subdomains. Provincial sub-
- domains are used when sites don't apply for organizational
- subdomains.
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- 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
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- 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
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- _M_i_s_c_e_l_l_a_n_e_o_u_s _I_n_f_o_r_m_a_t_i_o_n
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- 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).
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