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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 11:51:28 -0700
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From: "Tim Oneil" <toneil@visigenic.com>
Subject: NIC
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Got the 2.2 current installed here, the upgrade was flawless.
(Thanks team freeBSD!)
So I'm checking the net connections, we have a T1 here, and its
fine, so far. And I try something I haven't done in ten years or
so, telnet to nic.arpa to do a whois. "Unknown host" Hmm...
I try a couple of other "known" backbone hosts from the old days.
Few of them worked. Are all the old vestages of arpanet gone?
Are the old net backbones and hosts passe?