Systems Overview · 1995
DATA (data)
DATA was the public-services host at the centre of the network: name resolution, anonymous FTP, Usenet news, mailing lists and the main web and virtual-host content.
images/internetforce_server_map.png (Systems Overview 1995).System identity
- Hostname
data- Address
206.20.95.3· segment viafw-data206.20.95.10- Platform
- Sun SPARCstation 5
- OS
- SunOS 4.1.4
- Role
- Internet services: primary DNS, FTP, news, web, mailing lists.
Services and configuration
| Service / role | Description | Configuration / evidence | Documentation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Primary DNS (BIND 4) | Authoritative nameserver for the Internet Force and hosted domains. | dns/named.boot · dns/named-data/ · dns/ | DNS |
| Anonymous FTP | Public chrooted FTP archive (Wu-ftpd, /ftponly shell). |
system/inetd.conf · ../users/system/ftp-world.txt · ../users/system/ftpusers | Web, FTP, news and mailing lists |
| Majordomo | Mailing lists with HTML archives. | majordomo/ | Mailing lists |
| News Usenet | News service fed from news.ios.com (NNTP). |
no recovered configuration (the FireWall-1 rule documents the feed) | Web, FTP, news and mailing lists |
| WWW / NCSA httpd | Web server and customer virtual hosts. | web/httpd.conf · web/ | Web, FTP, news and mailing lists |
| Virtual hosting (VIF) | Per-site dedicated addresses via Virtual Interface on SunOS. | ../sun-vif/ · dns/new_dns-HOWTO.txt | Web, FTP, news and mailing lists |
| Additional FTP archives | Additional public mirrors and archives. | artifacts/scripts/automatic_mirror-HOWTO.txt | Web, FTP, news and mailing lists |
On the maps
Full technical documentation
Open the canonical DATA README
This HTML page is a compact presentation; the Markdown README is the canonical source. WAIS appears among the historical services; for VIF/WAIS see the VIF material.