Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!ucbvax!BIONET-20.ARPA!ROODE From: ROODE@BIONET-20.ARPA (David Roode) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Name of NIC (was: twg, and nic not knowing its domain name..) Message-ID: <12319695446.19.ROODE@BIONET-20.ARPA> Date: Sun, 19-Jul-87 17:48:17 EDT Article-I.D.: BIONET-2.12319695446.19.ROODE Posted: Sun Jul 19 17:48:17 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Jul-87 22:38:25 EDT References:Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 7 WaWhat about creating a domain under the top level NET domain, NIC.NET in there could be the name DDN.NIC.NET for the DDN NIC...... NYSER.NIC.NET for their NIC.... This also works for the NOC.... ARPANET.NOC.NET MILNET.NOC.NET etc. The NIC/NOC for the NSFNET is called NNSC for some reason, so NSFNET.NNSC.NET is also possible. -------