The Little Garden / TLGnet Inc.
Tom Jennings
tomj at wps.com
Fri Jan 14 15:41:50 CST 2005
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Brad Parker wrote:
> Remember 'the little garden'? That was my inspiration. Paul Vixie was
> behind it I think. As I recall it was in La Honda, not far from where I
> went to summer camp as a kid. If I've got it wrong please correct me.
Well I have a lot of stuff from this era -- I had a life-killing
disk crash and backup tape death in 1992, so I have nothing before
Jan 93 ecept for the recent CP/M recovery.
But I have pretty much everything from TLG/the little garden. Here's
the oldest thing I cold find that was meta enough to be
interesting.
The context is, I ran the thing that was erroneously called a
"cooperative" though we were very co-operative in fact. I ran
the network, and started this (very fidonewsish) monthly
news mailing to all members of tlg. This is the earliest
mailing I have (I think).
(It was originally 'the little garden', no d/b/a or anything.
It later incorporated as TLGnet, Inc.)
notes;
ANything named "nos" are NOS boxen -- Phil Karn's ham radio KA9Q
code that just so happened to do TCP/IP routing. It was
quasi-stable. We ran it on single-floppy, 2MB 40MHz 386's.
cygnus used to be housed in a couple of residential apartments
at 814 University, Palo Alto, hence we put a POP there.
Looks like wps.com (was fido, now turing) was pingable (386/bsd)
Jan 93.
I suppose I should put all this crap on the website for googling.
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(Phone numbers obscured -- tomj 14 Jan 2005)
Brief news about The Little Garden, February 1993.
I am *finally* connected to the internet, rather than just mailing through
a gateway to/fro FidoNet.
Some new members again this month. Unlike previous months, I have
personally and recently verified every system's DNS data (with NIC.DDN.MIL
down to the SOA). I will continue to check new members, and will followup
and repair or otherwise deal with 'down' systems.
Once such is tsoft.net. Their DNS data was corrupt, and then a dead modem
took them off the air. I put a loaner modem in place, awaiting final repair/
replacement, and I will make sure their DNS is working ASAP.
gnu-age.com is down with hardware troubles; due to a job change Joe might
not be coming online again.
If you notice trouble in the little garden, please notify me; I will
do what I can to solve problems, and increasingly, try to head them off
before they happen.
Two items follow this message: the current, updated contact list (corrected
phone numbers and additional backup email addresses for many), followed
by an ASCII map of the end leafs of the little garden; handy if you suspect
network troubles, and want numeric IP addresses to ping for testing, if
nothing else.
The Little Garden Network: Contacts List, February 93
Member Contact Email Phone
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
TLG everybody the-little-garden at cygnus.com
Alternet Operations[*] ops at uunet.uu.net +1 703 xxx xxxx 24hrs
TIS John Sebes ejs at ba.tis.com +1 415 xxx xxxx mv site
Rich Feiertag feiertag at ba.tis.com +1 415 xxx xxxx mv site
Nancy Kelem kelem at ba.tis.com +1 415 xxx xxxx mv site
Steve Crocker crocker at tis.com +1 301 xxx xxxx MD site
Cygnus John Gilmore gnu at cygnus.com +1 415 xxx xxxx mv site
gnu at toad.com +1 415 xxx xxxx sf site
Stu Grossman grossman at cygnus.com +1 415 xxx xxxx mv site
Jean Marie Diaz ambar at cygnus.com +1 415 xxx xxxx mv site
Jim Wilson wilson at cygnus.com +1 415 xxx xxxx pa site
Pozar Tim Pozar pozar at kumr.lns.com +1 415 xxx xxxx site (h)
+1 415 xxx xxxx (w)
Hoover Kenton Hoover shibumi at joes.garage.com +1 415 xxx xxxx (h)
shibumi at turbo.bio.net +1 415 xxx xxxx (w)
CFCL Rich Morin rdm at cfcl.com +1 415 xxx xxxx site
xxx xxxx
Tharp Phil Tharp tharp at adobe.com +1 415 xxx xxxx (w)
ptharp at cif.com +1 415 xxx xxxx (h)
(CIF.COM DOESN'T EXIST: use cif.ba.tis.com for now)
Lever Edward Elhauge ee at lever.lever.com +1 415 xxx xxxx x314 site (w)
Richard Couture richard at myrddin.imat.com +1 415 xxx xxxx site (h)
Wired Mark Seiden mis at wired.com +1 415 xxx xxxx site
(wired at well.sf.ca.us) +1 415 xxx xxxx site
(jonathan at casa.stanford.edu)
Joe Arceneaux jla at gnu-age.com +1 415 xxx xxxx h
(GNU-AGE.COM IS DOWN)
Michael Park mikep at dragoman.com +1 415 xxx xxxx h
(mikep at abekas.com) +1 415 xxx xxxx w
tsoft Mike Durkin mdurkin at tsoft.net +1 805 xxx xxxx h
(mdurkin at polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu)
(TSOFT.NET IS DOWN)
Paul Goldstone paul at traveler.com +1 415 xxx xxxx h
;NEW MEMBERS
David Muir Sharnoff <reg. not complete> +1 510 xxx xxxx h
(muir at cogsci.berkeley.edu)
wsrcc Wolfgang Rupprecht wolfgang at wsrcc.com +1 510 xxx xxxx h
(wolfgang at mgm.mit.edu)
Tom Jennings tomj at wps.com +1 415 xxx xxxx h/w
Mark Seiden mis at seiden.com +1 415 xxx xxxxxx xxxx
(mis at usenix.org)
[*] Note: Only TIS should call Alternet.
[**] Note: An "URGENT" message will get fast response
Map of the little garden universe, member-centric. This is meant as a
guide, rather than the current Absolute Truth. Useful for pinging various
hosts'n'routers when you suspect trouble. Meet your neighbors!
Tom Jennings tomj at fido.wps.com
4 Feb 93
[NOTE: All addresses are in Class B subnet 140.174.xx.xx; eg.
.85.1 is shorthand for 140.174.85.1.]
to the big room
and beyond
^
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
| .
+-------+ . +-------+
|gw-mv- |.24.1 .23.253 |gw-liv.|
|pa.cyg |---------------|cygnus.|---+--------------- ethernet
|nus.com| . | .com | |
+-------+ . +-------+ |
.9.1 | . |
| . | .23.13
| . (814 Univ., +-------+
.9.2 | . Palo Alto) | nos1. |
+-------+ . |cygnus.| --> member IPs
|gw-pa- | . | .com |
| sf.cyg| . +-------+
|nus.com| .
+-------+ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.5.2 |
|
|
|
. . . . . .|. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
| (Toad Hall, San Francisco)
|
.5.1 |
+-------+
| gw. |
| toad. |
| com |
+-------+
.2.23 |
|
+-------+---------------+---------------+--------- ethernet
| | |
| | |
.2.66 | .2.69 | .2.71 |
+-------+ +-------+ +-------+
| nos1. | | nos2. | | nos3. |
| toad. | | toad. | | toad. |
| com | | com | | com |
+-------+ +-------+ +-------+
| <----- Member SLIP connections -----> |
Router names appear in UPPER CASE.
Toad Hall, San Francisco
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Routers in series with San Francisco TLG members' IP addresses:
gw-mv-pa.cygnus.com
gw-pa-sf.cygnus.com
gw.toad.com
[Subnets .83.xx, .84.xx, and .86.xx through .89.xx routed to 2.23]
[CHECK THIS!]
Router (56K termination):
GW.TOAD.COM .2.23
On the local ethernet:
--- domain ------ gate -- dest -- subnet -- user -- name, etc
toad.com .2.1 gnu (John Gilmore)
nos1.toad.com .2.66 Router for TLG members, see below
nos2.toad.com .2.69 Router for TLG members, see below
nos3.toad.com .2.71 Router for TLG members, see below
mofo.toad.com .2.20 curt (Curt Mayer)
NOS1.TOAD.COM .2.66 (Router for the following members)
.8.xx (Subnet allocated to SLIP ports)
--- domain ------ gate -- dest -- subnet -- user -- name, etc
kumr.lns.com .8.1 .8.2 .7.xx pozar (Tim Pozar)
.8.1 .8.2 .66.xx pozar (Tim Pozar)
joes.garage.com .8.128 .8.130 .69.xx shibumi (Kenton Hoover)
cfcl.com .8.65 .8.66 .42.xx rdm (Rich Morin)
lever.com .8.193 .8.194 .20.xx ee (Ed Elhauge)
NOS2.TOAD.COM .2.69 (Router for the following members)
.73.xx (Subnet allocated to SLIP ports)
--- domain ------ gate -- dest -- subnet -- user -- name, etc
myrddin.imat.com .73.1 .73.2 .70.xx richard (Richard Couture)
gnu-age.com .73.129 .73.130 .71.xx jla (Joe Arceneaux)
wired.com .73.193 .73.194 .72.xx chance (Jonathan Steuer)
.73.65 .73.66 .82.xx (David Sharnoff)
NOS3.TOAD.COM .2.71 (Router for the following members)
.74.xx (Subnet allocated to SLIP ports)
--- domain ------ gate -- dest -- subnet -- user -- name, etc
wps.com .74.1 .74.2 .77.xx tomj (Tom Jennings)
(unassigned) .74.193 .74.194 .78.xx
(unassigned) .74.65 .74.66 .79.xx
(unassigned) .74.129 .74.130 .80.xx
University Ave, Palo Alto
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Routers in series with Palo Alto members' IP addresses:
gw-mv-pa.cygnus.com
gw-liv.cygnus.com
nos1.cygnus.com.cygnus.com
Router (56K termination):
GW-LIV.CYGNUS.COM .23.253
On the local ethernet:
--- domain ------ gate -- dest -- subnet -- user -- name, etc
ecotone.toad.com .23.9 hugh (Hugh Daniels)
sendai.cygnus.com .23.12 (Rich Pixley)
moria.cygnus.com .23.22 wilson (Jim Wilson)
kitsup.cygnus.com .23.40 (Sean Fagan)
NOS.CYGNUS.COM .23.13 Router for the following members:
.85.xx (Subnet allocated for NOS use)
(Note that the Portmaster doesn't use a dest. SLIP address; we keep them
allocated for consistency. Four bit submasks are used because there are
10 ports per box.)
--- domain ------ gate -- dest -- subnet -- user -- name, etc
dragoman.com .85.2 .85.1 .86.xx mikep (Mike Park)
wsrcc.com .85.66 .85.65 .88.xx wolfgang (Wolfgang Rupprecht)
tsoft.net .85.130 .85.129 .87.xx mdurkin (Mike Durkin)
traveler.com .85.194 .85.193 .89.xx paul (Paul Goldstone)
seiden.com? .85.226 .85.225 .90.xx mark (Mark Seiden)
(unassigned) .91.xx
(unassigned) .92.xx
Pozar's two-bit(tm) addressing
4-bit m m m m
2-bit m m
(.1) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 (.2) 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
(.129) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 (.130) 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
(.65) 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 (.66) 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
(.193) 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 (.194) 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
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