[2609] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
world.std.com
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Sun Mar 22 15:40:24 1992
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 92 15:39:18 -0500
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
To: Jeff.Ogden@um.cc.umich.edu
Cc: SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Jeff.Ogden@um.cc.umich.edu's message of Sun, 22 Mar 92 10:44:26 EST <12362956@um.cc.umich.edu>
Here's a simple exam.
You are logged into world.std.com some day when the suggestions you
make are implemented (full connectivity, best-faith effort to conform
to AUP).
Which of the following hosts can you exchange commercial traffic with,
which can you not?
Why? How would you determine which is which (other than contacting
someone who might know every time you are about to type telnet or ftp
or whatever), best-faith answers acceptable:
1. uunet.uu.net
2. eros.uknet.ac.uk
3. cs.ucl.ac.uk
4. well.sf.ca.us
5. dra.com
6. nnsc.nsf.net
7. nic.ddn.mil
Answers:
1. uunet.uu.net: Yes, direct line.
2. eros.uknet.ac.uk: Yes, reachable via eunet
3. cs.ucl.ac.uk: No, has to go through nsfnet-relay.ac.uk, we do
however get logins from *.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk now (?!)
4. well.sf.ca.us: Yes, reachable via barrnet/cix.
5. dra.com: No, (ANS?)
6. nnsc.nsf.net: YES, via nearnet.
7. nic.ddn.mil: No, milnet.
It's interesting when we can get to the network nexus organization
itself but not beyond.
I wonder if that helps give network admins the illusion that there's
no problem?
-Barry Shein
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