vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) (07/02/89)
So, here I am using comp.protocols.tcp-ip as a news distribution medium. I'm afraid I have to take back all the nasty things I've thought about other people who couldn't think of any other way to reach the IP community. Apologies to all; I don't know how else to get this message out to the folks who might need to hear it. The NIC and I seem to have had a miscommunication; in the process of adding DECWRL's net 16 addresses to the core NS records they keep for us, they seem to have deleted our HOST entry from the latest (29-June) HOSTS.TXT. Since there are apparently still a lot of hosts out there who don't know about the DNS, I can only shudder to think of how much mail is being bounced. Our address is still "128.45.9.1, 16.1.0.1". Though the next HOSTS.TXT will hopefully contain this information, it may be a good idea for administrators of hosts still using HOSTS.TXT to add decwrl manually -- I don't know how long it will take for the NIC to publish the next revision. Again, please accept my apologies for this intrusion. We now return control of your display device to the debate over TCP keepalives, which, IMHO, are a bad idea. Paul Vixie DEC WRL -- Paul Vixie Work: vixie@decwrl.dec.com decwrl!vixie +1 415 853 6600 Play: paul@vixie.sf.ca.us vixie!paul +1 415 864 7013