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is perfect proof of that. The
Internet started off as a military
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rould t withstand a nuclear attack, but the
reason
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it grew into such a world wide phenomena
s is the people using it. The engineers
g who originally set up the military part
found o they could chat and send messages
to oeach
other, and slowly, as more computer
networks d join this fledgling Internet, more
people t gained access and so more people
started o communicating with each other_
t From this the various 'services' that allow
different a access to the Internet appeared.
Mail l for direct communication to other peo-
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nevvsgroups for widespread discussions
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debates, IRC for real time chat, FIT for
Ainaking a files publicly available and,
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A real problem with the Internet is the amount of
jargon it throws up. So before you even think of
installing AmiTCP there are a number of very important
terms you need to understand that will relate to
some very important pieces of information you will
have, or should get, from you Internet provider.
The best way to explain is to take a look at what
the Amigo Computing account looks like. If you
want to e-mail us our main e-mait address Is
acomp.demon.co.uk. This can be splif
number of parts, each of whichis given a fame:
acomp
demoricauk
acomp.demon.cauk
edit
node name
domain name
host name
mail box alias
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acomp is the actual name of our compar.re the AC
offices. The edit' pad before thrt
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at this st/ge and is onty an alias that allows
ocemp mail to be ditifted i s to different mail boxes, As you
imay rhave r enoticed, l e -there-ire
also tSP and ACAS mail
boxes that have the ,ass'e host name of
acomp•demon.co.uk, bu; their mailas directed to
their different mail buses on our offke Amiga.
demon.co.uk referso the addlinistration domain
of the network to.v;Itiott yourhost computer is
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using AmiTCP. From everything I have heard
and the number of letters we get through
the post, there are many people Out there
having a lot of problems installing and using
AmiTCP. So I have decided to take my life in
my hands and install AmiTCP from scratch,
in the possibly vain hope that someone else
might gain some help from seeing what I
did to get it up and running.
Before you can install AmiTCP for your
Internet provider you will need to use a
standard comms package to dial up your
account so you can logon and enter
your password. To do this you will
need a program such as Term or
Ncomm.
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connected. Mit is youldflitain name ain us
refers to the Internet pr eryvu are
acomp.deron.cou It Pt the ccisnpleteboddress of
machine met is tatted the host name. gprIng installation
the AmiTCP listalle•asks you romter the host'
name, not sisludiog the- domSin part:U
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4°4 Our scimputer's h o v enode
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IP adrkeek is the numeri,a1 version of a machine's
• hoSirame. This is made up of four B.bit numbers
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s 158.152.101.200., and when you use,
socomp.demon.co.ukathis
Lets translated by your
pInternet
provider to 158.152.1
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However, as people generally remember names bet-
r 01.200 ter than numtiers, i n shost t enames a d are . a huitialt friendly
alternative to IP address numbers. gir
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When installing AmiTCP you will neer( to know at
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least two IP address, which are given to you by your
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Internet provider. The first is your own computer's IP
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number winch uniquely identifies you from every.
bother
computer connected to the Internet, so if
y someone sends you an e-moil it knows where to go.
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other IP address you need is that of your Internet
oprovider
s server, the computer you connect to that
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e-ma s and all the oiherintem
to your mdchine_
Default gateway is where all the Internet traffic
you create is sent, and this machine then, hopefully
.sends it whizzing off to the correct destination.
Usually this will be the same as your default server's
PP address, as it is the same machine. your Internet
provider will supply you with this information.
Name servers are the machines that will redirect
your Internet net traffic to the correct destination.
Having named servers allows you to use the 'named'
version of IP addresses. The named server is used to
work out what IP address should be used for anything
you send out.
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