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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
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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>
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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.)

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