FYI on Questions and Answers Answers to Commonly asked "New Internet User" Questions
RFC 1325
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RFC - Informational
(May 1992; No errata)
Obsoleted by RFC 1594
Obsoletes RFC 1206
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Network Working Group G. Malkin Request for Comments: 1325 Xylogics FYI: 4 A. Marine Obsoletes: RFC 1206 SRI May 1992 FYI on Questions and Answers Answers to Commonly asked "New Internet User" Questions Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract This FYI RFC is one of two FYI's called, "Questions and Answers" (Q/A), produced by the User Services Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The goal is to document the most commonly asked questions and answers in the Internet. New Questions and Answers In addition to updating information contained in the previous version of this FYI RFC, the following new questions have been added: Questions About the Internet: How do I get a list of all the hosts on the Internet? Questions About Internet Documentation: What is the RFC-INFO service? What is an FYI? What is an STD? What is the Internet Monthly Report? Questions About Internet Organizations: What is the Internet Society? Questions About Internet Services: What is "archie"? How do I Connect to archie? Mailing Lists and Sending Mail How Do I Send Mail to Other Networks? User Services Working Group [Page 1] RFC 1325 FYI Q/A - for New Internet Users May 1992 Table of Contents 1. Introduction................................................. 2 2. Acknowledgements............................................. 3 3. Questions About the Internet................................. 3 4. Questions About TCP/IP....................................... 5 5. Questions About the Domain Name System....................... 6 6. Questions About Internet Documentation....................... 6 7. Questions about Internet Organizations and Contacts.......... 14 8. Questions About Services..................................... 19 9. Mailing Lists and Sending Mail............................... 23 10. Miscellaneous "Internet lore" questions..................... 27 11. Suggested Reading........................................... 28 12. References.................................................. 29 13. Condensed Glossary.......................................... 30 14. Security Considerations..................................... 42 15. Authors' Addresses.......................................... 42 1. Introduction New users joining the Internet community have the same questions as did everyone else who has ever joined. Our quest is to provide the Internet community with up to date, basic Internet knowledge and experience, while moving the redundancies away from the electronic mailing lists so that the lists' subscribers do not have to read the same queries and answers over and over again. Future updates of this memo will be produced as User Services members become aware of additional questions that should be included, and of deficiencies or inaccuracies that should be amended in this document. Although the RFC number of this document will change with each update, it will always have the designation of FYI 4. An additional FYI Q/A, FYI 7, is published that deals with intermediate and advanced Q/A topics [11]. The Q/A mailing lists are maintained by Gary Malkin at Xylogics.COM. They are used by a subgroup of the User Services Working Group to discuss the Q/A FYIs. They include: quail@xylogics.com This is a discussion mailing list. Its primary use is for pre-release review of the Q/A FYIs. It is not necessary to be on this list to get the FYI documents. quail-request@xylogics.com This is how you join and leave the quail mailing list. quail-box@xylogics.com This is a write-only list which serves as a User Services Working Group [Page 2] RFC 1325 FYI Q/A - for New Internet Users May 1992 repository for candidate questions and answers. It is not necessary to be on the quail mailing list to forward to the quail-box. Please note that this is not a place to ask questions to which you don't know the answers. 2. Acknowledgements The following people deserve thanks for their help and contributions to this FYI Q/A: Corinne Carroll (BBN), Vint Cerf (CNRI), PeterShow full document text