Installing and Administering Internet Services

22 Chapter 1
Product Overview
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 “Installing and Configuring Internet Services”
on page 27 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 “Installing and Configuring Internet Services” on
page 27 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 “Installing and Administering
sendmail” on page 117 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 “Configuring and Administering the BIND Name
Service” on page 59 or type man 1M named.
finger Allows users to look up information about other users on the network. For
more information, see “Installing and Configuring Internet Services” on
page 27 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 “Configuring TFTP and BOOTP Servers” on page
163 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 “Configuring TFTP
and BOOTP Servers” on page 163 or type man 1 tftp or man 1M
tftpd.
gated Dynamically determines routing over internets from one node to another.
For more information, see “Configuring gated” on page 235 or type man
1M gated.
mrouted Implements the Distance-Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP) for
routing IP multicast datagrams. For more information, see “Configuring
mrouted” on page 303 or type man 1M mrouted.