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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1050 ; Thu, 11 Feb 93 07:00:15 EST Xref: sserve comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains:2666 comp.unix.xenix:10584 comp.unix.sysv386:26926 biz.sco.general:3900 comp.unix.bsd:10995 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!cs.ubc.ca!van-bc!sl From: sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne) Subject: Re: Listing of all Internet addresses??? Organization: Computer Signal Corp, Canada Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 10:00:35 GMT Message-ID: <C28950.A6x@wimsey.bc.ca> References: <HSTAMS.6.0@cipvax.biolan.Uni-Koeln.DE> <1l1kkfINNe0m@fbi-news.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE> <JAAPJL.93Feb8164406@cmb00.larc.nasa.gov> <1993Feb9.035242.27126jp@tygra.Michigan.COM> Lines: 28 In article <1993Feb9.035242.27126jp@tygra.Michigan.COM> jp@tygra.Michigan.COM (John Palmer) writes: >In article <JAAPJL.93Feb8164406@cmb00.larc.nasa.gov> J Lee Jaap <J.L.Jaap@larc.nasa.gov> writes: }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. } }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. ODT 2.0 has traceroute. 2.1 has dig (I can't remember, 2.0 may have had dig as well.) -- Stuart Lynne <sl@wimsey.com> ......................... UNIX Facsimile Software Wimsey Information Technologies ................... moderator biz.sco.binaries uucp login:nuucp passwd:nuucp .................... ftp.wimsey.com:~ftp/ls-lR.Z PD Software for SCO UNIX .................... ftp.wimsey.com:~ftp/pub/wimseypd