Network Working Group
Request for Comments: 679
NIC: 31890
D.W. Dodds
BBN-TENEXA
February 1975

February, 1975, Survey of New-Protocol TELNET Servers

It has been two and a half months since our last survey, and it has been depressing to note that "progress" toward an all-new-protocol network has been even slower than previously. Changes since the last list (with host numbers in octal):

   SRI-ARC (2) and OFFICE-1 (53) have added logger sockets 27, but with
      Old-Protocol servers (are these forerunners of New-Protocol
      servers?);
   SDC-CC (110) has been removed from the list until it starts operating
      on the network
   LL-67 (12) now has a New-Protocol server on socket 1;
   CASE-10 (15) has departed from the network;
   BBN-TENEX is now host 361 (formerly 105);
   ANL (ARGONNE, 67) has come on the net with Old- and New-Protocol
      servers on sockets 1 and 27, respectively.
   
   The following is the latest version* of the summary and tabulation of
   server-host Telnet servers.
           total server hosts             36      100%
           no New-Prot server             17       47%
           unknown status (new host)       1        3%
           total New-Prot implem.         18       50%
               New-Prot on socket 27,
                   Old on socket 1 (2)    10       28%
               New-Prot on 1 and 27 (3)    6       16%
               New-Prot on 1 only (3)      2        6%
   Notes:
  • All data in this report were gathered via a surveying program run at various times, plus a few manual checks to fill out the data. What is reported here is the way the various servers work as seen by the new-Protocol User Telnet at BBNA, as of 20 Feb. 1975.

(2) These are the sites whose operation is 100% correct according to

all protocols and conventions, as I understand them.

(3) We realize that some of the servers that appear here as New-

Protocol servers on socket 1 are actually servers which attempt to communicate with both Old- and New-Protocol User TELNETs according to what control sequences are received.

Tabulation of server status for all server sites:

   Host     Host          Socket  Socket   New-Prot. Options
    No.     Name            1       27     Implemented (if any)
   
   101     UCLA-CCN        Old     X
   201     UCLA-CCBS       Old     X
     2     SRI-ARC         Old     Old
   102     SRI-AI          Old     New      I1,3,6; O3
     3     UCSB-MOD75      Old     X
     4     UTAH-10         Old     X
   305     BBN-TENEXA      Old     New      I1,3,6; O3
   106     MIT-DMS         New     New      I1,3; O3
   206     MIT-AI          Old     X
   306     MIT-ML          Old     X
     7     RAND-RCC        Old     X
    10     SDC-LAB         Old     X
    11     HARV-10         New     X        I1,3; O3
    12     LL-67           New     X        None
   112     LL-TX-2         Old     X
    13     SU-AI           New*    New*     I1,3
    16     CMU-10B         New     New      I1,3; O3
   116     CMU-10A         New     New      I1,3; O3
    17     I4-TENEX        Old     X
   217     KI4B-TENEX      Old     X
    20     AMES-67         New     New      None
   126     USC-ISI         Old     New      I1,3,6; O3
   226     USC-ISIB        Old     New      I1,3,6; O3
    27     USC-44          Old     X
   327     USC-ECL         Old     X
    37     CCA-TENEX       Old     X
    40     PARC-MAXC       Old     New      I1,3,6; O3
    43     UCSD-CC         Old     New      I0(!),3; O0,3
   344     HAWAII-500      ?       ?
    52     LONDON          Old     X
    53     OFFICE-1        Old     Old
    54     MIT-MULTICS     New     New      None
    61     BBN-TENEXB      Old     New      I1,3,6; O3
   361     BBN-TENEX       Old     New      I1,3,6; O3
   162     BBN-TENEXD      Old     New      I1,3,6; O3
    67     ANL             Old     New      I1,3,6; O3

Key:

      X  No server at this socket
      ?  Status not ascertained -- unable to connect to host
      I# Option # implemented incoming to user (Server says "Will #")
      O# Option # implemented outgoing from user (Server says "Do #")
         (# is option number in new Protocol.  All options implemented
         by anyone are:
      
            0    Transmit-Binary
            1    Echo
            3    Suppress-Go-Ahead
            6    Timing-Mark )

Note: * These servers return improper responses to some TELNET option requests.

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