Installing and Administering Internet Services

Chapter 1 21

Product Overview

The Internet Services

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.

•Forsendmail, 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 lists the Internet Services.