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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1183 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:29:10 EST Xref: sserve comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains:2696 comp.unix.xenix.sco:6702 comp.unix.sysv386:26947 biz.sco.general:3934 comp.unix.bsd:11089 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!sgiblab!pacbell.com!lll-winken!ddsw1!karl From: karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains,comp.unix.xenix.sco,comp.unix.sysv386,biz.sco.general,comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Listing of all Internet addresses??? Message-ID: <C2AntD.H22@ddsw1.mcs.com> Date: 11 Feb 93 17:12:48 GMT References: <JAAPJL.93Feb8164406@cmb00.larc.nasa.gov> <1993Feb9.035242.27126jp@tygra.Michigan.COM> <t4d1H8+sic@atlantis.psu.edu> Organization: MCSNet, Chicago, IL Lines: 52 In article <t4d1H8+sic@atlantis.psu.edu> barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) writes: >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. Yeah, John, that's quite interesting. Note the following: $ uname -a ddsw1 ddsw1 4.0 4.0 i386 i386 I think this is a System V machine :-) Now, note: $ host -va ns.uu.net Query about ns.uu.net for record types ANY Trying ns.uu.net ... Query done, 1 answer, status: no error The following answer is not authoritative: ns.uu.net 161570 IN A 137.39.1.3 Authoritative nameservers: .. 364221 IN NS NS.NIC.DDN.MIL .. 364221 IN NS AOS.BRL.MIL .. 364221 IN NS KAVA.NISC.SRI.COM .. 364221 IN NS C.NYSER.NET .. 364221 IN NS TERP.UMD.EDU .. 364221 IN NS NS.NASA.GOV .. 364221 IN NS NIC.NORDU.NET Additional information: NS.NIC.DDN.MIL 364221 IN A 192.112.36.4 AOS.BRL.MIL 412961 IN A 128.63.4.82 AOS.BRL.MIL 412961 IN A 26.3.0.29 AOS.BRL.MIL 412961 IN A 192.5.25.82 KAVA.NISC.SRI.COM 364221 IN A 192.33.33.24 C.NYSER.NET 364221 IN A 192.33.4.12 TERP.UMD.EDU 364221 IN A 128.8.10.90 NS.NASA.GOV 453487 IN A 128.102.16.10 NS.NASA.GOV 453487 IN A 192.52.195.10 NIC.NORDU.NET 364221 IN A 192.36.148.17 What was that about "host" not working under System 5? -- Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, <well-connected>!ddsw1!karl) Data Line: [+1 312 248-0900]