On Saturday 03 April 2010 09:38:46 pm IPv3.com wrote: > What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ?
'The Internet' is a collective internetworking of several thousand autonomous systems, using a common protocol, that masquerades as a unified whole. Whether this protocol is 1822, NCP, or IPvX is irrelevant. -- On the UUCP memory lane side of this thread, I had a site in the uucp maps way back when, used smail on a Tandy 6000, then an AT&T 3B1, took a stripped-down feed (a full feed at 9600 over InterLATA long distance was brutal, even when a full feed was only 40MB per day), and had both a '.uucp' pseudo-FQDN as well as a bang path from uunet as such. Ran C-News on both the T6K and the 3B1....whew, that's a long time ago. My uucp upstream had leased line uucp links to more than one upstream. His upstream links were active pretty much all of the time, and I do for one remember doing multihop bang path uucp using HoneyDanBer on the 3B1 many moons ago. Sort of a poor-man's FTP archive access. He for a while took full feeds on Sun 3 gear, which was an upgrade from the Tandy 6000 that previously had had 9600bps leased line links, and was how I found him in the first place, being a T6K user. Many software archives were available with bang-path uucp; with pathalias and the uucp-maps loaded you could even do, IIRC, uunet-homed bang-path uucp. And when all but your own path were on leased lines, the transfer happened pretty much immediately, at least for small stuff. Then he got leased line SLIP links, and got his own real FQDN. He's still out there, and still offers UNIX shell access....nanook, you listening? There was business in uucp linkage back in the day; uunet made its start that way, remember? As to the sendmail 'hack;' well, uucp was and is just another email transport, like SMTP or Netmail/Echomail, is. Nothing really hackish about it. So, since, through uucp 'proxies' to ftp archives (a uucp to IP gateway of sorts), was I 'on the Internet' or not? Yes and no.....but then I got SLIP access, thanks to Karn's KA9Q NOS ported to 3B1, and the rest, as they say, was history. Still have my first editions of 'Managing UUCP and Usenet' and 'Using UUCP and USenet' packed away somewhere....
