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- DDN MGT Bulletin 94 DISA DDN Defense Communications System
- 16 MARCH 1992 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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- MILNET/NIC RE-REGISTRATION SCHEDULE
- AND TAC CARD EXPIRATION
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- Due to the restructuring of the reregistration schedule, some users may
- have TAC cards whose expiration date has passed. If you have such a card,
- please be advised that these cards will remain valid until your host is
- reregistered. The reregistration schedule is now being finalized, and all
- authorized host/gateway administrators will be notified of the month in
- which their hosts are to be reregistered. At this time, the templates for
- their current users will be made available for any deletions/modifications.
- In addition, they will be asked to provide registration data for any new users
- (additions to the database) on the standard template.
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- The DDN NIC has recently initiated a software change that will allow the
- WHOIS database to specifically identify the users on a particular host
- that has moved behind a gateway. In the past, users associated with a host
- that moved behind a gateway appeared to be associated with the gateway rather
- than their specific host when queried in WHOIS. This recent software
- enhancement now allows you to use WHOIS to do the following:
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- 1) display all pertinent information regarding a particular gateway
- 2) see a list of all the hosts behind the gateway and
- 3) view all the registered users associated with these hosts.
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- These users will now be registered against the host on which they have their
- primary login account.
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- The DDN NIC will initiate a final effort to increase the efficiency of the
- TAC Card process within several weeks. This will consist of a comprehensive
- review of the NIC database to ensure that all mailing addresses to which TAC
- Cards are sent are as complete and accurate as possible. Special
- attention will be given to OCONUS sites, since these locations have been
- especially difficult to send mail to. With the help of all authorizing host/
- gateway administrators, this project will further streamline the TAC Card
- distribution process and will ensure that cards reach their final destination
- as quickly and efficiently as possible.
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