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- DDN MGT Bulletin 84 DCA DDN Defense Communications System
- 4 Sept 91 Published by: DDN Network Info Center
- (NIC@NIC.DDN.MIL) (800) 235-3155
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- DEFENSE DATA NETWORK
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- MANAGEMENT BULLETIN
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- The DDN MANAGEMENT BULLETIN is distributed online by the DDN Network
- Information Center under DCA 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 [192.67.67.20]
- 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 NIC SERVICES
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- The transition of the Network Information Center from SRI
- International in Menlo Park, CA, to Government Systems Inc. in
- Chantilly, VA, is officially scheduled for 1 October 1991. This
- includes the transition of services currently offered to DDN and
- Internet users by SRI, such as network/user registration, on-line
- information services, and Help Desk operations. SRI will continue to
- provide all NIC services, to include responding to all user calls and
- requests, until 30 September 1991.
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- DISA and GSI will make every effort to ensure a smooth and timely
- transition of NIC services from SRI. Network users should be
- minimally impacted. With a few minor exceptions, all on-line services
- currently offered by SRI will appear the same to the user when a
- connection is established to the new (GSI) NIC host. These exceptions
- are due to the change from the TOPS20 operating system to the SunOS
- operating system. The new NIC host is a Sun 470 SPARCserver running
- SunOS 4.1. All users on the DDN and the Internet should carefully
- note the following changes:
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- U.S. Postal Address: Government Systems, Inc.
- Attn: Network Information Center
- 14200 Park Meadow Drive
- Suite 200
- Chantilly, VA 22021
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- Help Desk Telephone Numbers:
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- 1-800-365-3642 (1-800-365-DNIC)
- 1-703-802-4535
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- Help Desk Hours of Operation:
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- 7:00 am to 7:00 pm Eastern Standard Time
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- Fax Number: 1-703-802-8376
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- Network Address: 192.112.36.5 (NIC.DDN.MIL)
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- Root Domain Server: 192.112.36.4 (NS.NIC.DDN.MIL)
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- During the period of 26 to 30 September 1991 the ID (WHOIS) database
- will not be changed. All registration actions for this five day
- period will be suspended. This action is necessary in order to
- transfer the master database to GSI. Starting 26 September 1991, all
- U.S. mail and fax requests should be addressed to the GSI address and
- fax number shown above. All electronic mail requests should continue
- to be directed to the "HOSTMASTER" and "REGISTRAR" mailboxes at
- NIC.DDN.MIL. As appropriate, SRI will redirect electronic mail to
- GSI. On 1 October 1991 all registration activities will resume to
- include the normal generation of DDN TAC access cards.
- Currently-valid TAC access cards will remain valid until the normal
- expiration date.
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- IMPORTANT! Hosts not using the domain naming system should edit their
- host tables prior to 1 October 1991 to reflect the change in GSI's
- domain name DIIS.DDN.MIL (192.112.36.5) to NIC.DDN.MIL and delete the
- current NIC.DDN.MIL (192.67.67.20) from their tables. The GSI IP
- address, 192.112.36.5, will not change and may be used in lieu of the
- domain name. GSI will re-generate all informational and network
- tables (i.e., host tables) no later than 8 October 1991. All tables
- will be available using the same access method currently used to
- download from the SRI NIC.
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- We hope that the transition and its accompanying changes will not
- greatly inconvenience network users, and we thank you in advance for
- your patience and understanding. For general questions regarding the
- transition, users may call the new NIC Help Desk after September 1,
- 1991 at 1-800-365-3642. Questions regarding NIC operations policy
- should be referred to Mr. Wil Pitre of DISA/DODS at (703) 692-2771
- (DSN) 222-2771. Questions regarding NIC contractual matters should be
- referred to Mr. Tyrone Smallwood of DISA/DISCA.
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