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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???
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Date: 11 Feb 93 17:12:48 GMT
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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?

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Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, <well-connected>!ddsw1!karl)
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