The Hitchhikers Guide to the Internet
25 August 1987
writen by Ed Krol (krol@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu),converted to html by Panagiotis Christias (christia@theseas.ntua.gr)
This document was produced through funding of the National Science Foundation.
Copyright (C) 1987, by the Board of Trustees of The University of Illinois. Permission to duplicate this document, in whole or part, is granted provided reference is made to the source and this copyright is included in whole copies.
Contents
- Purpose and Audience
- What is the Internet?
- Operating the Internet
- RFCs
- The Network Information Center
- The NSFnet Network Service Center
- Mail Reflectors
- Address Allocation
- Internet Problems
- Routing
- Names
- What's wrong with Berkeley Unix
- Appendix A: References to Remedial Information
- Appendix B: List of Major RFCs
- Appendix C: Contact Points for Network Information
- Glossary