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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1066 ; Thu, 11 Feb 93 16:05:23 EST Xref: sserve comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains:2670 comp.unix.xenix:10585 comp.unix.sysv386:26928 biz.sco.general:3905 comp.unix.bsd:11004 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!bcm!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uunet.ca!xenitec!golem!davidf From: davidf@golem.waterloo.on.ca (David J. Fiander) Subject: Re: Listing of all Internet addresses??? Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 12:06:25 GMT Message-ID: <1993Feb10.120625.2001@golem.waterloo.on.ca> References: <1l1kkfINNe0m@fbi-news.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE> <JAAPJL.93Feb8164406@cmb00.larc.nasa.gov> <1993Feb9.035242.27126jp@tygra.Michigan.COM> Lines: 19 According to jp@tygra.Michigan.COM (John Palmer): > >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. Other people have responded appropriately to this article already, so Ill just post some facts. "host" comes with SCO UNIX (although it's not very useful unless you buy the networking package), and BIND comes with the networking runtime. The networking devsys includes a very nice BSD socket interface, and _I_ have never had any problems getting code off the to compile (once I turned all the index()s into strchr()s). - David