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... The Internet is growing at a phenomenal rate, with no deceleration in
sight. Every month thousands of new users are added. New networks
are added literally almost every day. In fact, it is entirely
conceivable that in the future every human with access to a computer
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... will be able to interact with every other over the Internet and her
sister networks. However, the ability to interact with everyone is
only useful if one can locate the people with whom they need to work.
Thus, as the Internet ...
... Thus, as the Internet grows, one of the limitations imposed on the
effective use of the network will be determined by the quality and
coverage of Directory Services available.
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... WHOIS service is maintained by the Defense Data Network Network
Information Center, or DDN NIC ...
... service is maintained by the Defense Data Network Network
Information Center, or DDN NIC. It is currently maintained at GSI ...
... for the IP portion of the Internet. It contains information about IP
networks, IP network managers, a scattering of well-known personages
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... IP portion of the Internet. It contains information about IP
networks, IP network managers, a scattering of well-known personages
in the Internet ...
... specifically to the MILNET systems. As the NIC is responsible for
assigning new networks out of the pool of IP addresses, it is very
easily able to collect this information when a new network ...
... networks out of the pool of IP addresses, it is very
easily able to collect this information when a new network is
registered. However, the WHOIS database ...
... nameservers can be
identified for each domain, so that one unreachable network will not
necessarily cut off nameservice. However, even though the DNS is
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... a) searches over a part of the distributed namespace may have to
traverse the network, and some implementations cache all the
responses before giving them to the user, and b) some early
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