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From: postel@VENERA.ISI.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: DNS Query server?
Message-ID: <9002202017.AA01104@bel.isi.edu>
Date: 20 Feb 90 20:17:59 GMT
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 The facts of IEN116 are: It's ridiculous for anything on the Internet.
 It works fine for a small commercial Ethernet with a few PCs or 
 terminal servers on it.

 TCP/IP lives outside of the Internet.  Given the research/academic
 orientation of the Internet, and the billing issues that exist,
 commercial TCP/IP nets will likely continue to be isolated for quite
 a long time.


The notion that any network will remain small and isolated clearly ignores
all the experience of the last 20 years.

--jon.