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From: brunner@bullhead.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Arpanet transition (sri-nic.arpa is changed)
Summary: The NIC host is changing its name, 6 August 1989
Keywords: Milnet Arpanet DARPA NIC SRI
Message-ID: <1640@ibmpa.UUCP>
Date: 2 Aug 89 00:51:17 GMT
Sender: news@ibmpa.UUCP
Reply-To: brunner@ibmsupt.UUCP (T.E. Brunner)
Organization: IBM AWD Palo Alto
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References:

The NIC host, which is the authorative nameserver (bind) for the Domain
Name System, is finally set to retire the old, pre-domain name of

	sri-nic.arpa

and adopt the fully qualified domain name of

	nic.ddn.mil

The name change will take effect on 6 August 1989, and the old name
will continue to be mapped (correctly) to the Internet address of
the NIC.

This change will affect code which has a hard-wired notion of what
the name of the NIC is, see the source to the whois(1) command for
an example.

You may change the #define NICHOST in /usr/ucb/whois.c, recompile
and install the corrected routine, or continue to use the existing
code. Judging from previous Internet transitions, the "arpa" name
will continue to be honored well into the next decade.
Eric Brunner, IBM AWD Palo Alto
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