richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) (05/09/91)
In article <1991May7.145228.423@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> shore@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore) writes: >and it is absolutely not true that it is common for >a host to have multiple IP addresses. Any host acting as a gateway between networks is likely to. There are 7 such hosts within 50 feet of me. -- Richard -- Richard Tobin, JANET: R.Tobin@uk.ac.ed AI Applications Institute, ARPA: R.Tobin%uk.ac.ed@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Edinburgh University. UUCP: ...!ukc!ed.ac.uk!R.Tobin
lance@motcsd.csd.mot.com (lance.norskog) (05/10/91)
richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes: >In article <1991May7.145228.423@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> shore@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore) writes: >>and it is absolutely not true that it is common for >>a host to have multiple IP addresses. >Any host acting as a gateway between networks is likely to. There are 7 >such hosts within 50 feet of me. Any host with TCP/IP derived from BSD 4.2 or 4.3 has at least two: one for Ethernet and one for the loopback network. It was my understanding that shared libraries save many users of SUNos much pain because they allow popping in a user-developed DNS lookup handler that actually work. Has SUN finally got this one right? Lance