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The HP 9000 Internet Services product combines services developed by the University of California at Berkeley (UCB), Cornell University, Merit Network, Inc., Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU), Hewlett-Packard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Internet Software Consortium, and other public domain sources.

ARPA Services include the set of services developed by UCB for the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA): ftp and telnet. ARPA services are used to communicate with HP-UX, UNIX, and non-UNIX systems.

Berkeley Services include the set of services developed by UCB to implement UCB protocols: BIND, sendmail, finger, the rexec library, rcp, rlogin, remsh, ruptime, rwho, and rdist. Berkeley Services are used to communicate with HP-UX or UNIX systems.

The Internet Services product also contains several other services: BOOTP, tftp, rbootd, NTP, and DDFA.

We strongly recommend that you also see the following books for more detailed technical and conceptual information:

  • For the Internet Services, see TCP/IP Network Administration by Craig Hunt, published by O'Reilly and Associates.

  • For BIND, see DNS and BIND, by Paul Albitz and Cricket Liu, published by O'Reilly and Associates, Inc.

  • For sendmail, see sendmail, 2nd edition, by Bryan Costales with Eric Allman and Neil Richert, published by O'Reilly and Associates, Inc. You also can visit the Worldwide Web (WWW) site for sendmail:

    http://www.sendmail.org

Note that you can get information about the O'Reilly books (including retail outlets where you can buy them, as well as how to order them directly from O'Reilly) by visiting the O'Reilly WWW site:

http://www.ora.com

Once you are at the O'Reilly site, look in the catalog, under the category "System and Network Administration." The above books are listed under "Network Administration."

Table 1-1 “The Internet Services” lists the Internet Services.

Table 1-1 The Internet Services

ftp

Copies files among hosts on the network that support Internet Services. For more information, see Chapter 2 “Installing and Configuring Internet Services” or type man 1 ftp or man 1M ftpd.

telnet

Allows you to log onto a remote host that supports Internet Services. For more information, see Chapter 2 “Installing and Configuring Internet Services” or type man 1 telnet or man 1M telenetd.

sendmail

Works with your network's mailers (for example, elm and mailx) to perform internetwork mail routing among UNIX and non-UNIX hosts on the network. For more information, see Chapter 4 “Installing and Administering sendmail” or type man 1M sendmail.

BIND

Implements the Domain Name System (DNS). The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) Service is a distributed database service that resolves host names and facilitates internetwork mail. For more information, see Chapter 3 “Configuring and Administering the BIND Name Service” or type man 1M named.

finger

Allows users to look up information about other users on the network. For more information, see Chapter 2 “Installing and Configuring Internet Services” or type man 1 finger or man 1M fingerd.

BOOTP

Allows some diskless systems, such as the HP 700/X terminal, to load network and configuration parameters from a server on the network. For more information, see Chapter 5 “Configuring TFTP and BOOTP Servers” or type man 1M bootpd.

tftp

Used with bootp to allow some diskless systems, such as the HP 700/X terminal, to transfer files containing bootstrap code, fonts, or other configuration information. For more information, see Chapter 5 “Configuring TFTP and BOOTP Servers” or type man 1 tftp or man 1M tftpd.

gated

Dynamically determines routing over internets from one node to another. For more information, see Chapter 8 “Configuring gated” or type man 1M gated.

mrouted

Implements the Distance-Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP) for routing IP multicast datagrams. For more information, see Chapter 9 “Configuring mrouted” or type man 1M mrouted.

NTP

Maintains the local clock on an HP-UX workstation in agreement with Internet-standard time servers. For more information, see Chapter 7 “Configuring the Network Time Protocol (NTP)”, or type man 1M xntpd.

rexec

A library routine used to execute commands on a remote UNIX host on the network. For more information, see Chapter 2 “Installing and Configuring Internet Services” or type man 3N rexec or man 1M rexecd.

rcp

Allows you to transfer files between UNIX hosts on the network. For more information, see Chapter 2 “Installing and Configuring Internet Services” or type man 1 rcp.

rlogin

Allows you to log onto a remote UNIX host. For more information, see Chapter 2 “Installing and Configuring Internet Services” or type man 1 rlogin or man 1M rlogind.

remsh

Allows you to execute commands on a remote UNIX host. remsh is the same command as rsh in 4.3 BSD. For more information, see Chapter 2 “Installing and Configuring Internet Services”, or type man 1 remsh or man 1M remshd.

ruptime

Lists information about specified UNIX nodes that are running the rwhod daemon. ruptime is not supported over X.25 networks or networks using the PPL (SLIP) product. For more information, see Chapter 2 “Installing and Configuring Internet Services” or type man 1 ruptime or man 1M rwhod.

rwho

Lists information about specified UNIX nodes that are running the rwhod daemon. rwho is not supported over X.25 networks or networks using the PPL (SLIP) product. For more information, see Chapter 2 “Installing and Configuring Internet Services” or type man 1 rwho or man 1M rwhod.

rdist

Distributes and maintains identical copies of files across multiple hosts. For more information, see Chapter 10 “ Using rdist” or type man 1 rdist.

rbootd

RMP is an HP-proprietary boot and file transfer protocol used in early workstations and in the Datacommunications and Terminal Controllers (DTC/9000). For more information, see Chapter 5 “Configuring TFTP and BOOTP Servers” or type man 1M rbootd.

whois

Lists information about specified people and organizations listed in the Network Information Center (NIC) database. A direct socket connection to the NIC is required. For more information, type man 1 whois.

DDFA

Allows access from HP-UX systems and user-written applications to HP DTCs. For more information, see the DTC Device File Access Utilities manual.

Secure Internet Services

An optionally enabled mechanism that incorporates Kerberos V5 Release 1.0 authentication and authorization for the following services: ftp, rcp, remsh, rlogin, and telnet. For more information, see Chapter 11 “Secure Internet Services”.

 

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