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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1005 ; Wed, 10 Feb 93 21:00:32 EST Xref: sserve comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains:2662 comp.unix.xenix:10582 comp.unix.sysv386:26921 biz.sco.general:3888 comp.unix.bsd:10983 Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains,comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.sysv386,biz.sco.general,comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!destroyer!Tygra.Michigan.COM!jp From: jp@tygra.Michigan.COM (John Palmer) Subject: Re: Listing of all Internet addresses??? Organization: CAT-TALK Conferencing System Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 03:52:41 GMT Message-ID: <1993Feb9.035242.27126jp@tygra.Michigan.COM> References: <HSTAMS.6.0@cipvax.biolan.Uni-Koeln.DE> <1l1kkfINNe0m@fbi-news.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE> <JAAPJL.93Feb8164406@cmb00.larc.nasa.gov> Lines: 45 In article <JAAPJL.93Feb8164406@cmb00.larc.nasa.gov> J Lee Jaap <J.L.Jaap@larc.nasa.gov> writes: "In article <1l1kkfINNe0m@fbi-news.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE> rv@deins.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Ruediger Volk) writes: " " In article <HSTAMS.6.0@cipvax.biolan.Uni-Koeln.DE>, HSTAMS@cipvax.biolan.Uni-Koeln.DE (Henning Stams) writes: " > Is there any good reason not to use "nslookup" to get a host address? " " yes - there are nicer programs for querying domain name servers around. " Have a look at " " - host (that's mainly for easy use) or " - dig (for sophisticated DNS hackers) " " at a software archive nearby:-) " "[Reverse-erase] Is there any good reason not do perform a DNS lookup "to get a host address? :-) (There's always "we don't do DNS", but "that's not a good one.) "-- dig and host are nice if you have a BERKELEY system. Neither of them work under System V or Xenix and thus are USELESS to half (or more) of the UNIX population. Please people, I for one am getting tired of seeing posts which say "there is this wiz-bang pd software that can do everything - just ftp it from a.host.com, etc", only to find its nothing but a piece of s*** since it only runs under convoluted Berkeley. I hope USL wins their lawsuit and forces BSD to comply with real UNIX standards. But for now, please do us a favor: If you are going to reccomend a piece of software, please tell us if its BERKELEY-esq. That way, we don't waste net bandwidth ftping a piece of crap. ---flame off ps: and by the way, BIND and dump/rdump are just as useless for the same reason as is traceroute. At least traceroute compiles, but it never returns any useful information at all, just 1 * * *, 2 * * * up to 30 * * * and then it quits. Oh, forgive me, you can control how many x * * *'s you get before it quits with the -m option. -- "Come on Jiro, its | E-MAIL: jp@michigan.com CAT-TALK IS BACK as a FREE time for your | SYSTEM!! 313-882-2209 300-14400 V.32/V.32BIS/TurboPEP medication" | Anon-UUCP: System: tygra, Login: nuucp, no pw -- Dr. Xanthian | Get file "/cat/pub/filelist" for a list of files.