ross@spam.ua.oz.au (Ross Williams) (04/25/91)
Recently I posted a message giving an anonymous FTP site where code for my lzrw1 algorithm could be found. Unfortunately I forgot to give the IP address of the machine and so I have had many requests for it. The IP address of sirius.itd.adelaide.edu.au is 129.127.40.3 For those who came in late, the files are in pub/misc/lzrw1.c and .../lzrw1.68000 Ross. ross@spam.ua.oz.au
simon@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Simon Hackett) (04/28/91)
ross@spam.ua.oz.au (Ross Williams) writes: >Recently I posted a message giving an anonymous FTP site >where code for my lzrw1 algorithm could be found. >Unfortunately I forgot to give the IP address of the machine >and so I have had many requests for it. >The IP address of sirius.itd.adelaide.edu.au is 129.127.40.3 I felt like the following was worth saying. Please feel free to ignore this if you don't agree, I'm not trying to start anyone flaming anyone - I just hope that at least a few people gain some useful info from the following: For the benefit of those people who asked for sirius' IP address, you should also go and ask your system administrator why using the name didn't work for you...it should, on any reasonably modern unix (or vms) system, and on all the PC and mac telnet/ftp programs I've ever seen (if properly configured). If your system can't (or won't) support using the domain name system for name-to-number translations automatically, you should see if you have the "nslookup" utility installed on your system (which does these lookups manually). Using the names is _always_ preferable to using the numbers. Then when we move our numbers around, the world doesn't shift for all our users. We now return you to your normal programming... Cheers, Simon Hackett Adelaide Uni shackett@sirius.itd.adelaide.edu.au