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From: rrj@hpctdjl.HP.COM (Roger Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: FTP site for RFCs?
Message-ID: <3270024@hpctdjl.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Apr 91 22:11:32 GMT
References: <FRANCIS.91Apr5021203@daisy.zaphod.uchicago.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard CTD, Colo. Spgs.
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> Is there an FTP site with RFCs? I'm kinda interested in seeing the
> protocol specs for the stuff I'm using, but I'm just a student (not
> even a CS student at that :-), so I don't have any clue about who
> handles this stuff.

  Try to ftp to  nic.ddn.mil, which is 192.67.67.20. This is the main
  source for rfc's. Use the user anonymous and your ident as a password.
  cd to RFC:  <--- the colon is important. The file rfc-index.txt
  is the key to all of the files. If you "get" the files using lower
  case representation it will create a file locally with lower case, my
  personal preference.

  Here is part of the 00readme file from there.

  Welcome to the DDN Network Information Center!  The following public
  directories are located on the NIC.DDN.MIL computer system:

  DDN-NEWS:          DDN Management Bulletins and DDN Newsletters
  IEN:               Internet Experimental Notes
  INTERNET-DRAFTS:   Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Idea Papers
  NETINFO:           Contains Admin. notes, Documents, Host/TAC info,
	       Domain/Internet info, PC/Kermit info, NSC/HA lists,
	    Network program info, DDN Vendors Guide and DDN New Users Guide
 NETPROG:           Network programs for WHOIS, HOSTNAME, getting the NIC
                    host table and host table compiler
 PROTOCOLS:         Network Protocols Information
 RFC:               Requests For Comments

  To get a listing of filenames within one of these directories while using
  FTP, use the "dir" (directory) command, as in "dir RFC:".

  Each directory contains an index or indexes to the files within that
      directory:

  DDN-NEWS:DDN-NEWS-INDEX.TXT