RFC 267
Network Host Status
RFC 267 💖 Network Status, November 1971
Okay bestie, so this is RFC 267 from the Network Working Group 🎀. Ellen Westheimer of BBN wrote it on 22 November 1971 (NIC #7815). It's filed under Categories: F, G.3. It updates RFC #266 ✨, and it obsoletes None, so nothing gets replaced here 🫶.
This RFC reports on the status of most Network Hosts from November 8 to November 19. On November 18, though, the BBN prototype Terminal IMP (Network Address 158) was inaccessible because of hardware debugging 🔧.
Who's Sitting Out Daily Testing 🌸
Several Hosts are currently excluded from the daily testing, and they fall into two groups 💅:
- Hosts that aren't expected to be working on the Network as servers (available for use from other sites) for at least two weeks. These are:
Network
Address Site Computer
71 Rand PDP-10
74 Lincoln TX2
13 Case PDP-10
14 Carnegie PDP-10
15 Ames B6500
16 Ames IBM-360/67- Hosts that are currently meant to be users only 🙈. This group includes the Terminal IMPs that are presently on the Network (AMES, MITRE, and BBN*). It also includes the Network Control Center Computer (Network Address 5), which is used solely for gathering statistics from the Network. Finally, these Hosts are in here too:
Network
Address Site Computer
7 Rand IBM-360/65
73 Harvard PDP-1
12 Illinois PDP-11During these two weeks, the Lincoln Labs TX2 Hosts became a Network User 🎀. The SDC IBM 360/67 is now a server ✨.
The tables on the next two pages sum up the Host status for this period 📋.
- The BBN Terminal IMP (Network Address 158) is a prototype, so it's frequently not connected to the Network. It's being used to refine and debug the Terminal IMP programs 🧚.
The Big Host Status Table 💜
NETWORK STATUS or STATUS or
ADDRESS SITE COMPUTER PREDUCTION PREDUCTION
OBTAINED FROM
1 UCLA SIGMA-7 Server Jon Postel
5 UCLA IBM-360/91 Remote Job Service
now, Telnet in
April Bob Braden
2 SRI
(NIC) PDP-10 Server John Melvin
66 SRI
(AI) PDP-10 "Soon" Len Chaiten
3 UCSB IBM-360/75 Server Jim White
4 UTAH PDP-10 "Soon" Barry Wessler
*5 BBN
(NCC) DDP-516 Never Alex McKenzie
69 BBN
(TENEX) PDP-10 Server Dan Murphy
6 MIT
(Multics) H-645 Server Mike Padlipsky
70 MIT
(DM) PDP-10 Server Bob Bressler
*7 RAND IBM-360/65 User only Eric Harslem
*71 RAND PDP-10 January '72 Eric Harslem
8 SDC IBM-360/67 Server Bob Long
9 HARVARD PDP-10 Server Bob Sundberg
*73 HARVARD PDP-1 User only Bob Sundberg
20 LINCOLN IBM-360/67 "Soon" Joel Winnet
*74 LINCOLN TX2 December Tom Barkalow
11 STANFORD PDP-10 "Soon" Andy Moorer
*12 ILLINOIS PDP-11 User only John Cravits
*13 CASE PDP-10 March '72 Charles Rose
*14 CARNEGIE PDP-10 January '72 Hal vanZoeren
*15 AMES B6500 September '72 John McConnel
*16 AMES IBM-360/67 January '72 Wayne Hathaway
*144 AMES TIP User only
*145 MITRE TIP User only
*158 BBN TIP User only
(Proto-type)
* host not included in daily testing.The Daily Testing Grid 📅
Here's the first week (November 8 to 12) 🌈:
NETWORK
ADDRESS SITE COMPUTER DAY, DATE and TIME (Eastern)
M Tu W Th F
11/8 11/9 11/10 11/11 11/12
1 UCLA SIGMA-7 O D O O O
*65 UCLA IBM-360/91 O D O D O
2 SRI (NIC) PDP-10 O O O O T
66 SRI (AI) PDP-10 D D D D D
3 UCSB IBM-360/75 O T O O D
4 UTAH PDP-10 D D H D D
69 BBN (TENEX) PDP-10 H O O O O
6 MIT (Mulics) H-645 D D D O O
70 MIT (DM) PDP-10 O H T D O
8 SDC IBM-360/67 #D #D #D #D #D
9 HARVARD PDP-10 D D D D T
10 LINCOLN IBM-360/67 H H H H D
11 STANFORD PDP-10 D T D D DAnd here's the second week (November 15 to 19) 🦋:
M Tu W F
11/15 11/16 11/17 11/19
1 UCLA SIGMA-7 O O O O
*65 UCLA IBM-360/91 O O D O
2 SRI (NIC) PDP-10 T T O O
66 SRI (AI) PDP-10 D D D D
3 UCSB IBM-360/75 O O O O
4 UTAH PDP-10 D D D D
69 BBN (TENEX) PDP-10 O D O O
6 MIT (Mulics) H-645 T D O H
70 MIT (DM) PDP-10 O O O D
8 SDC IBM-360/67 #D #D #D #D
9 HARVARD PDP-10 T D D T
10 LINCOLN IBM-360/67 D H D D
11 STANFORD PDP-10 D D D DDecoder Ring 🔑
Here's what each code in the grid means:
D= Dead (Destination Host either dead or inaccessible [due to network partitioning or local IMP failure] from the BBN Terminal IMP.)R= Refused (Destination Host returned a CLS to the initial RFC.)T= Timed out (Destination Host did not respond in any way to the initial RFC, although not dead.)H= 1/2 Open (Destination Host opened a connection but then either immediately closed it, or did not respond further.)O= Open (Destination Host opened a connection and was accessible to users.)- The UCLA IBM-360/91 currently has Remote Job Service (NETRJS), but it hasn't implemented a full server Telnet System. The BBN Terminal IMP isn't equipped to test NETRJS, so we're assuming that receiving the UCLA explanatory message means NETRJS is working too 🤞.
# These sites advertise that they may not have their system available at these times.
[ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ] [ into the online RFC archives by Simone Demmel 1/98 ] 📼
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