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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1072 ; Thu, 11 Feb 93 20:00:08 EST Xref: sserve comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains:2672 comp.unix.xenix:10586 comp.unix.sysv386:26930 biz.sco.general:3911 comp.unix.bsd:11005 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!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!newsserver.jvnc.net!atlantis.psu.edu!barr From: barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) Subject: Re: Listing of all Internet addresses??? Message-ID: <t4d1H8+sic@atlantis.psu.edu> Sender: news@atlantis.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Penn State Population Research Institute 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> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 20:47:11 GMT Lines: 29 In article <1993Feb9.035242.27126jp@tygra.Michigan.COM> jp@tygra.Michigan.COM (John Palmer) 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. Uh huh. Whatever you say John. Incompetency will get you nowhere. >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. John, are these the same SYSV and Xenix boxes that you said didn't have the networking option installed? --Dave -- System Administrator, Population Research Institute barr@pop.psu.edu A .sig quote is like a summer job, okay for a few months but not much more.