RFC 298
Network host status
Network Host Status 🎀
RFC 298, written by E. Westheimer on 1 February 1972, with NIC number 8486 💖 The original doesn't list a category, and it doesn't say what it obsoletes or updates, so there's nothing to add there ✨
Okay bestie, so this RFC is a status report on most Network Hosts from January 17 to January 28 🌸 Lowkey it's giving "who's online and who's ghosting" 👀
Some Hosts get left out of the daily testing 🧚 They fall into two groups:
- Hosts that aren't expected to work as servers (basically, available for other sites to use) on a regular basis for at least two weeks 💅 Here they are:
NETWORK SITE COMPUTER
ADDRESS
133 BBN PDP-10(B)
13 Case PDP-10
15 Ames/(Paoli) ILLIAC/(B6500)- Hosts that are meant to be users only 🍓 This group includes the Terminal IMPs that are currently on the Network (AMES, MITRE, NBS and BBN*). It also has the Network Control Center (Network Address 5), which is used solely for gathering statistics from the Network 📊 And then there are these:
NETWORK SITE COMPUTER
ADDRESS
7 Rand IBM-360/65
73 Harvard PDP-1
12 Illinois PDP-11
19 NBS PDP-11🔥 NOTE: During this interval both the UTAH PDP-10 and the RAND PDP-10 became Network servers. Main character glow-up energy 👑
The tables on the next two pages sum up the Host status for this stretch 💜
* The BBN Terminal IMP (Network Address 158) is a prototype, so it's frequently not connected to the Network. It's actually being used to refine and debug the Terminal IMP programs 🦋
ADDRESS SITE COMPUTER DATE AND TIME (EASTERN)
1/17 1/18 1/19 1/20 1/21
1800 1730 1000 1500 1730
1 UCLA(NMC) SIGMA-7 #H O #D O O
65 UCLA(CCN) IBM-360/91 O O #D O O
2 SRI(NIC) PDP-10 O O O O O
66 SRI(AI) PDP-10 D D D D D
3 UCSB IBM-360/75 O O O D O
4 UTAH PDP-10 T T #T O O
69 BBN(10X-A) PDP-10 O O D O D
6 MIT(Multics) H-645 O T O D O
70 MIT(DM) PDP-10 D D O O D
71 RAND PDP-10 D D O D D
8 SDC IBM-360/155 #D #D #D #D #D
9 HARVARD PDP-10 O #D O #D #D
10 LINCOLN LABS IBM-360/67 D H T H H
74 LINCOLN LABS TX2 #D #T #D R O
11 STANFORD PDP-10 D D D D D
14 CARNEGIE PDP-10 H H H H H
16 AMES IBM-360/67 D D D D D
ADDRESS SITE COMPUTER DATE AND TIME (EASTERN)
1/24 1/25 1/26 1/27 1/28
1430 1630 1730 1300 1530
1 UCLA(NMC) SIGMA-7 O O O O T
65 UCLA(CCN) IBM-360/91 O O O O O
2 SRI(NIC) PDP-10 O O T O O
66 SRI(AI) PDP-10 D D D D D
3 UCSB IBM-360/75 O O D O O
4 UTAH PDP-10 O O O O O
69 BBN(10X-A) PDP-10 O D O H O
6 MIT(Multics) H-645 R O D O D
70 MIT(DM) PDP-10 O D T O H
71 RAND PDP-10 T D D O D
8 SDC IBM-360/155 #D #D #D #D #D
9 HARVARD PDP-10 #R #R O O O
10 LINCOLN LABS IBM-360/67 H D H T H
74 LINCOLN LABS TX2 O O O O T
11 STANFORD PDP-10 D D D D D
14 CARNEGIE PDP-10 D H H D H
16 AMES IBM-360/67 D D D D DHere's the decoder ring for those codes 🔑
- D = Dead 💀 The Destination Host is either dead or inaccessible from the BBN Terminal IMP (because of network partitioning or a local IMP failure).
- H = 1/2 Open 🙈 The Destination Host opened a connection but then either closed it right away or stopped responding.
- O = Open ✨ The Destination Host opened a connection and was accessible to users.
- R = Refused 🚫 The Destination Host sent a CLS back to the initial RFC.
- T = Timed out ⏰ The Destination Host didn't finish the ICP and open a connection within 60 seconds.
* The only service the UCLA IBM-360/91 currently offers is a Network Job Service (NETRJS). The BBN Terminal IMP isn't equipped to test NETRJS, though, so we're assuming that the initial connection to the NETRJS logger means NETRJS is working too 🧠
#These sites advertise that they may not have their system available at these times ⚠️
Now the big one, the status and predictions table 📋
STATUS OR
SITE SITE COMPUTER STATUS OR PREDICTIONS
ADDRESS PREDICTION OBTAINED FROM
1 UCLA SIGMA-7 Server(#Limited) John Postel
65 UCLA IBM-360/91 Remote Job Service Bob Braden
(Telnet in April)
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 Server Barry Wessler
*5 BBN(NCC) DDP-516 Never Alex McKenzie
69 BBN(TENEX-A) PDP-10 Server Dan Murphy
*133 BBN(TENEX-B) PDP-10 Server(Exper.) 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 Server Eric Harslem
*8 SDC IBM-300/155 Server Bob Long
9 HARVARD PDP-10 Server Bob Sundberg
*73 HARVARD PDP-1 User only Bob Sundberg
10 LINCOLN IBM-30/67 "Soon" Joel Winnet
74 LINCOLN TX-2 Server Will Kantrowitz
11 STANFORD PDP-10 "Soon" Andy Moorer
*12 ILLINOIS PDP-11 User only John Cravits
*13 CASE PDP-10 March Charles Rose
14 CARNEGIE PDP-10 "Soon" Hal VanZoeren
*15 AMES/(PAOLI) ILLIAC/B6500 September John McConnell
16 AMES IBM-360/67 "Soon" Wayne Hathaway
*144 AMES TIP User only
*145 MITRE TIP User only
*19 NBS PDP-11 User only Robert
Rosenthal
*147 NBS TIP User only
*158 BBN TIP User only
(Prototype)* Host not included in daily testing 🫶
#The NMC is a research site and would like to have prior arrangement with each user 🌈
[This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry] [into the online RFC archives by Kelly Tardif, Via Genie 10/1999]
📦 where this page comes from
- ietf: rfc298 1972-02
- 💖 girlified by claude-haiku-5-5 on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms