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From: medin@NSIPO.NASA.GOV ("Milo S. Medin", NASA ARC NSI Project Office)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Mourning of the passing of the ARPANET
Message-ID: <9006070824.AA06845@cincsac.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: 7 Jun 90 08:24:17 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The Internet
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Folks, it appears that the ARPANET has quietly passed away into the annals
of network history.  June 1 was the official cut off date I believe, and I
did some traceroute's to a net 10 host and not even the DDN Core knew
about a route to net 10!  Not even the Mailbridge at BBN in Cambridge.

Script started on Thu Jun  7 01:11:44 1990
cincsac [37]: traceroute -g moffett-fld-mb.ddn.mil 10.0.0.51
traceroute to 10.0.0.51 (10.0.0.51), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
 1  arc-nas-gw (128.102.16.5)  0 ms  0 ms  0 ms
 2  arc-psn-gw (192.52.195.6)  20 ms  0 ms  20 ms
 3  MOFFETT-FLD-MB.DDN.MIL (26.20.0.16)  60 ms  80 ms  60 ms
 4  MOFFETT-FLD-MB.DDN.MIL (26.20.0.16)  60 ms !N  40 ms !N  60 ms !N
cincsac [38]: traceroute -g cambridge-mb.ddn.mil 10.0.0.51
traceroute to 10.0.0.51 (10.0.0.51), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
 1  arc-nas-gw (128.102.16.5)  20 ms  20 ms  0 ms
 2  arc-psn-gw (192.52.195.6)  0 ms  20 ms  0 ms
 3  CAMBRIDGE-MB.DDN.MIL (26.1.0.49)  560 ms  500 ms  640 ms
 4  CAMBRIDGE-MB.DDN.MIL (26.1.0.49)  580 ms !N  480 ms !N  480 ms !N
cincsac [39]: exit
exit

script done on Thu Jun  7 01:12:36 1990

Perhaps a moment of silence is in order...

						Thanks,
						   Milo

PS For those of you not familiar with traceroute, the first shows BMILAMES
sending back a network unreachable message for net 10, and the latter is a 
net unreachable from a gateway at BBN.  The -g option specifies a source
route through the MILNET gateway.  NSFNET doesn't know about it either...