Registering Your Network

Before you assign IP addresses to the machines on your Solaris network, you must obtain a network number from the InterNIC. Moreover, if you are using administrative domains, you should register them with the InterNIC.

InterNIC and InterNIC Registration Services

The InterNIC was created in 1993 to act as a central body for Internet information, such as:

• The Internet's policies

• Accessing the Internet, including training services

• Resources available to Internet users, such as anonymous FTP servers, Usenet user groups, and so on

The InterNIC also includes the InterNIC Registration Services, the organization with which you register your TCP/IP network. The InterNIC Registration Services provide templates for obtaining a network number and for registering your domain. When you register, remember the following points:

• The InterNIC assigns network numbers.

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  Note –

  Do not arbitrarily assign network numbers to your network, even if you are not attaching the network to other TCP/IP networks.

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  InterNIC does not assign subnet numbers. Rather, subnet numbers are composed partly of the assigned network number and numbers that you define, as explained in What Is Subnetting?.

• You—not InterNIC—determine the domain name for your network and then register the domain name with the InterNIC.

How to Contact the InterNIC

You can reach the InterNIC Registration Services by the following forms of communication:

• Mail

  Write to the following address:

  Network Solutions 
  Attn: InterNIC Registration Services
  505 Huntmar Park Drive 
  Herndon, Virginia 22070

• Telephone

  The phone number is 1–703-742-4777. Phone service is available from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. The domestic toll free phone number is 1–800–779–1710.