From: "Daryl Anderson" Organization: University of Port Elizabeth To: GPALMER@coe.edu, derby@admaix.sunydutchess.edu (Scott Derby), "Gordon Findlay" , "Mark Aitchison" , "Jaroslaw Rafa" , jlambert@sunspot.ssl.berkeley.edu (Jan Lambert), Tony Catone , s11976@ctsc.hkbc.hk (PM Wong), theis@itp.uni-hannover.de (Werner Theis), "Waldi van Niekerk" , "Tony Wenlock" , "Steve Viljoen" , "Piet du Toit" , urwaleck@ps1.iaee.tuwien.ac.at (Martin Urwaleck), Peter Summers , doug@afnovell.reading.ac.uk, "Juergen Rosemeyer" , "Rik Binkhorst" , bu546@cleveland.Freenet.Edu, aschmitz@ins.infonet.net (Alan Schmitz), "Lester Cowley" , leng@cougar.vut.edu.au, hennie@info1.sabinet.co.za, "Vodicka Michal" , Klaus-Dieter.Tuchs@rrzn.uni-hannover.de Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 22:19:31 GMT+0200 X-Total-Enclosures: 1 X-Enclosure-Info: DOS,"TEL23074.ZIP",,,,Binary Subject: NCSA Telbin X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.21 Helo *, It has been a while since I have emailed anyone about a new release. Well, here it is, version 2.3.07.04 I have added quite a bit with this release, please read the documents. Briefly, I will explain. Major sections if the NCSA TCP/IP kernel have undergone rewrites as there was simply no functionality I could use. I have been aiming to write Unix admin utilities over packet driver ever since I started with this project. My aim has been realised to a large extent. From any Ethernet emulating or SLIP packet driver, I can now perform pings, traceroutes, bootp checking domain name resolution and if you run RIP for routing can check out the routing broadcasts. New utilities therefore are (use /? for parameters): BOOTPCHK - does bootp reply checking PING - checks host availability (has undocumemted flooding capability) HOPCHK - displays gateways involved in route to host NSLOOKUP - resolves IP addresses and FQDN NETSTAT - hangs around and listens for RIP broadcasts. I hope you find these useful. My aim is not to empower the end user with fancy bandwidth usurping utilities, but enable administrators to manage connectivity from all the dark corners of the LAN, regardless of media involved (ARCnet, SLIP etc, etc). I have improved the output of finger. A DOS redirected message does not contain spurious carraige returns. (e.g. finger @dolphin > zot) I have also included the utilities that enable you to setup your own keys in the Telbin emulator. The enclosed document should give enough pointers. If you have problems with the zip it is now to be obtained under ftp.upe.ac.za:/pub/msdos/ncsa/tel23074.zip In closing I would like to say that the LPD printing I included is not as functional as I would like, although it does work. (I found the RFC the other day :-)). My next release I will concentrate on the LPD daemon in the emulator and of course the accompanying utilities lpr, lpq and lprm. If there are any other things you would like, feel free to drop me a line (Due to a harddisk crash I have lost all previous email). I would also appreciate those VAX users to drop me a line about the FTP problem. Apparently NCSA Telbin FTP is not very usable from a VAX. I have no VAX account, but if the problems persist, I will try to acquire an account locally solve any problems. Comments and suggestions always are welcome. Regards Daryl +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ Daryl Anderson Internet: ccadda@beluga.upe.ac.za Network Consultant Tel: +27 41 5042321 University of Port Elizabeth Fax: +27 41 5042574 "A program that works first time contains a more subtle bug" - DLS +--------------------------------------------------------------------+