steve@BRILLIG.UMD.EDU (Steve D. Miller) (11/04/87)
For a few days now, I've had problems in reaching the NIC. When I try to fetch HOSTS.TXT, do a whois lookup, or just to telnet in, I sometimes get TCP resets, and sometimes just get timeouts. When I last telnetted to the SMTP port on the NIC, though, it worked fine. If it was just timeouts, I wouldn't be so surprised, but it seems strange to me that the NIC would tell me to go away when I try to reach certain well-known ports and not others. Is something funny going on out there? I'd sure like to update my host tables, for those last few machines who need to use it... -Steve
ron@TOPAZ.RUTGERS.EDU (Ron Natalie) (11/09/87)
You ought to use the domain system rather than host tables, but since you are on MILNET you can ftp or use the port 101 server to pull the NIC host table off BRL-AOS. It is available in the file <NETINFO>HOSTS.TXT