On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:04:19 -0600
Larry Sheldon <larryshel...@cox.net> wrote:
> On 3/1/2010 9:55 AM, Adam Waite wrote:
> >
> >> Hm, I was under the impression that ARPANET was a government run
> >> network...
> >>
> >>
> > Not since 1992......what you're looking for these days is NIPRnet
> > and SIPRnet, and ESnet, etc, etc, etc.
> >
> > ARPANET only lives on in reverse dns.....
>
> And that is only the TLD label.
>
> Is there still a DARPANET, ARPANET's successor?
>
>
Depends on what you mean. As noted, there are government-only IP
networks, some of which are not connected to the public Internet.
SIPRNET, for example, is the "Secret IP Router Network", for
lightly-classified traffic.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
