RFC 344
Network Host Status
RFC 344: Network Host Status ✨
Okay bestie, this is RFC 344 🦋 and it's a status report. Here's the title block, the important stuff first:
- Series: Network Working Group 💖
- RFC number: 344 🎀
- Author: Ellen Westheimer, BBN 💅
- NIC number: #10423
- Date: 22 May 1972 📅
- Categories: F, G.3
- Updates: RFC #342 🔥
- Obsoletes: None
What This RFC Covers
This RFC reports on the status of most Network Hosts from May 8 to May 19 🌸. No testing happened on May 15 because they tried installing the new IMP system that day 🙈.
During this stretch, the PDP-10 of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Group (Network address 134) and the PDP-10 at Stanford (Network address 11) both became Network Servers 👑✨.
Some Hosts are currently excluded from the daily testing 💀. They fall into two categories:
- Hosts that aren't expected to be functioning on the Network as servers (available for use from other sites) on a regular basis for at least two weeks 🧚. The only Host in this category is the PDP-10 at Case (Network address 13).
- Hosts that are currently intended to be users only 💜. This includes the Terminal IMPs currently on the Network (AMES, MITRE, NBS, ETAC, USC, GWC, and BBN*). It also includes the Network Control Center computer (Network address 5), which is used solely for gathering statistics from the Network 📊. And finally, these Hosts are in this group too:
Network
Address Site Computer
------- ---- --------
7 Rand IBM-360/65
73 Harvard PDP-1
12 Illinois PDP-11
19 NBS PDP-11
23 USC IBM-360/44The tables on the next two pages summarize 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 Status Table
Here's the big status rundown, straight from the source 🌈:
"STATUS OR
SITE PREDICTIONS
ADDRESS SITE COMPUTER STATUS OR PREDICTION OBTAINED FROM
------- ---- -------- ------------------- -------------
1 UCLA SIGMA-7 Server #Limited Jon Postel
65 UCLA IBM-360/91 NETRJS now Bob Braden
(Telnet in June)
2 SRI(NIC) PDP-10 Server Jim White
66 SRI(AI) PDP-10 Server Len Chaiten
3 UCSB IBM-360/75 Server Ron Stoughton
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
134 MIT(AI) PDP-10 Server Jeff Rubin
*7 RAND IBM-360/65 User Only Eric Harslem
71 RAND PDP-10 Server Eric Harslem
8 SDC IBM-370/155 Server Bob Long
9 HARVARD PDP-10 Server Bob Sundberg
*73 HARVARD PDP-1 User Only Bob Sundberg
10 LINCOLN IBM-360/67 "Soon" Joel Winett
74 LINCOLN TX-2 Server Will Kantrowitz
11 STANFORD PDP-10 Server Andy Moorer
*12 ILLINOIS PDP-11 User Only John Cravits
*13 CASE PDP-10 June Charles Rose
14 CARNEGIE PDP-10 Server Hal VanZoeren
15 AMES ILLIAC Server John McConnell
(B6500)
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
*148 ETAC TIP User Only
*23 USC IBM-360/44 User Now James Pepin
*151 USC TIP User Only
*152 GWC 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.The Test Schedule 🗓️
This next table shows what each site did on each test date and time (Eastern) ⏰:
SITE
NO. SITE DATE AND TIME (EASTERN)
---- ---- -----------------------
5/8 5/9 5/10 5/11 5/12 5/16 5/17 5/18 5/19
1630 1300 1730 1630 1300 1300 1600 1400 1300
1 UCLA-NMC T D O H H D O O O
65 UCLA-CCN* O O O O O O O O O
2 SRI-ARC O O D O O O O O O
66 SRI-AI D D D D D D D D D
3 UCSB-MOD75 O O O O O O O O O
4 UTAH-10 O O H O D O D O O
69 BBN-TENEX O O O O O O O O O
133 BBN-TENEXB #T O #T #T #T #T #D O O
6 MIT-MULTICS O D O O O O O D H
70 MIT-DMCG F O O O O F O F O
134 MIT-AI T H H H H H H H H
71 RAND-CSG D H O O O O D D D
8 SDC-ADEPT D #D D D D #D #D #D #D
9 HARVARD-10 O O #D O O O O O O
10 L.L.-360 T D D D H D H H H
74 L.L.-TX-2 T D O O O D #D O R
11 STANFORD-AI T D D T T H D D D
14 CMU-10 D D O O O O O O O
15 AMES-ILLIAC D D T T D D T T T
16 AMES-67 D D D D D D D D DLegend 🔑
Here's what the codes mean, so you can read the tables like a pro 🧠:
D= Dead. The Destination Host is either dead or inaccessible (due to network partitioning or local IMP failure) from the BBN Terminal IMP 💀.F= Full. The Destination Host opened a connection, told the user that all Network ports were in use, and immediately closed the connection 😭.H= 1/2 Open. The Destination Host opened a connection but then either immediately closed it, or didn't respond any further 🙃.O= Open. The Destination Host opened a connection and was accessible to users ✨.R= Refused. The Destination Host returned a CLS to the initial RFC 🚫.T= Timed out. The Destination Host didn't complete the ICP and open a connection with 60 seconds ⏳.
Footnotes 📝
*The only service currently offered by the UCLA IBM-360/91 is a Network Job Service (NETRJS). However, the BBN Terminal IMP isn't equipped to test NETRJS, so we're assuming that an initial connection to the NETRJS logger means NETRJS is also functioning 🧐.#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 BBN Corp. Alex McKenzie 12/96]🫶 That's the whole tea, bestie. Periodt. 💅
📦 where this page comes from
- ietf: rfc344 1972-05
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