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From: karn@ka9q.bellcore.com (Phil Karn)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Where can I get RFCs?
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Date: 15 Oct 89 21:07:30 GMT
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Reply-To: karn@ka9q.bellcore.com (Phil Karn)
Organization: Secular Humanists for No-Code
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>I have heard, that RFCs are freely available from some site.

The nominal site is nic.ddn.mil, which accepts anonymous FTP. The RFCs are
in directory RFC:.

For those on NSFNet and tributary networks who may have had trouble reaching
the NIC due to the perenially slow and congested nature of the MILNET and
ARPANET (what's left of it), not to mention the perenially slow and
congested nature of the NIC machine itself, you're welcome to access the
shadow RFC collection I keep on flash.bellcore.com (128.96.32.20) under
/pub/rfc. I usually add new RFCs to the collection within a day or so of
being announced. (Most of the delay is usually in reaching the NIC. It helps
that I like to work weird hours.)

These files are all compressed, so their names end in ".Z".  You'll need the
UNIX "uncompress" program to read them, and be sure to pull them over in
binary mode.

Phil