XBR2D96D@DDATHD21.BITNET.UUCP (10/28/87)
Hallo everybody,
I'm very sorry to insert this note to the (very interesting) discussion
about nonresident TPC/IP's or standardized interfaces. I've got some
problems and have made some observations with/about the CMU PC-IP as
distributed in August 87.
1.) Is it correct, that there is no session logging facility provided
with the terminal emulators (or am I just so stupid that I didn't
find it)?
2.) If you don't have Nameservers/Domainservers in your network (we
have an TCP/IP Ethernet with three UNIX V Workstations, four
Terminalservers and two AT compatible PC's), you have no way to
enter symbolic node-names (at least I found no routine that is
looking for a local host table). Is that observation correct?
3.) For some reasons (no VT-100 emulation in CMU PC-IP) I'm running
CMU PC-IP in parallel to the FTP V1.16 product. I've seen no
problems up to now. Is this a "feature", a bug or just good luck?
4.) Where can I get PD name/domain/time/cookie/"whatever else" server
code?
Regards
Martin Knoblauch
TH-Darmstadt
Dept. Physical Chemistry 1
Petersenstrasse 20
D-6100 Darmstadt
West-Germany
BITNET: <XBR2D96D@DDATHD21>
PS: TOP 1.) and 2.) have been resolved by hacking, so I need only
confirmation that my observations are true or that I'm stupid.jbvb@ftp.UUCP (James Van Bokkelen) (10/28/87)
Regarding local host tables: As far as I know (I haven't used a number of the Public Domain packages), all of the commercial offerings have hosttable facilities, and none of the free ones do. We put our own in when we started using our package internally, but couldn't afford anything we could run a standard nameserver on. Regarding your question 3: It is more or less a "feature" that our 1.16 (and most other descendants of PC/IP) co-exists with CMU. Each of the programs has its own hardware driver and interrupt service, and tries to be well-behaved in how it leaves the interface and vector (although versions of the Stanford code of a year ago apparently didn't restore the vector). We sell a $40 "Public Domain Software" diskette that has an IEN-116 nameserver on it (in source form for 4BSD systems). We've been told that we could put Berkeley's Bind on the same diskette, but it is quite large, even when compressed. Either program can also be picked up by anonymous FTP from various Internet sites. James B. VanBokkelen FTP Software Inc.
nelson@CLUTX.CLARKSON.EDU.UUCP (10/28/87)
>Regarding local host tables: As far as I know (I haven't used a number >of the Public Domain packages), all of the commercial offerings have >hosttable facilities, and none of the free ones do. Phil Karn's KA9Q code doesn't have nameserver, and does have a local host table. I have added nameserver code, but it is not well integrated yet. -russ
ddp+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU.UUCP (10/29/87)
1) If you are asking about a "photo" utility, then you are correct, there isn't one. 2) It doesn't support a local host table, and never will. 3) It's certainly a feature. Drew