mcdonley@dinl.uucp (alan mcdonley) (02/08/91)
Please provide numbers for these sites: > archive.cs.ruu.nl /pub/GNU/rcs-5.5.tar.Z > cs.purdue.edu pub/RCS/rcs.5_5.tar.Z > prep.ai.mit.edu pub/gnu/rcs-5.5.tar.Z > uunet.uu.net gnu/rcs-5.5.tar.Z > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alan McDonley, Martin Marietta Information and Communication Systems (303) 977-3347 mcdonley@inlatlas.den.mmc.com P.O.Box 1260 ncar!dinl!mcdonley Denver,CO 80201-1260 Opinions are my own, not my employer's. --------------------------------------------------------------------------
emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) (02/08/91)
In article <1827@dinl.mmc.UUCP> mcdonley@dinl.uucp (alan mcdonley) writes: Please provide numbers for these sites: > archive.cs.ruu.nl /pub/GNU/rcs-5.5.tar.Z > cs.purdue.edu pub/RCS/rcs.5_5.tar.Z > prep.ai.mit.edu pub/gnu/rcs-5.5.tar.Z > uunet.uu.net gnu/rcs-5.5.tar.Z Get a name server and resolver software that works. Numbers died out with the dinosaurs, and besides they are subject to arbitrary and capricious change. If you are using software from a major workstation vendor that doesn't believe in domain name service, there are even binary drop-in replacements for shared libraries to handle that. Avail yourself of local resources. Even if your workstation doesn't have proper resolver code, there is probably a terminal server or something around with the ability to turn numbers into names. Read comp.archives; it's full of numeric addresses for most every site mentioned. (The numbers for prep and for uunet are probably on your spool directory right now.) Grab a copy of Jon Granrose's Anonymous FTP sites list. It's on pilot.njin.net:/pub/ftp-list/ftp.list [128.6.7.38] and has a lot of numbers and sites, more or less accurate but by no means exhaustive. Learn how to use "archie", the McGill U. tool that lets you search through hundreds of sites FTP directories. As a side effect it returns IP addresses. For instance the search echo "prog rcs-5.5.tar.Z" | mail archie@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca would return by mail everywhere in the archie database that has that file for FTP. As a last resort there are several other ways of having remote sites do a lookup for you; one that I know of can be gotten to this way: telnet hermes.merit.edu # e.g. 35.1.48.149 Which Host? um-dns Query? hermes.merit.edu hermes.merit.edu internet address is 35.1.48.149 internet address is 35.1.48.150 (this looks like one for the comp.archives/comp.sources.wanted frequently asked questions list) -- Msen Edward Vielmetti /|--- moderator, comp.archives emv@msen.com