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From: brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
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Subject: Re: Experimental Nameservice
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Date: 9 Nov 89 22:17:48 GMT
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In article <2559@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> jst@cca.ucsf.edu (Joe Stong) writes:
> What I'm offering is a temporary, experimental network service:
> nameservice via telnet.

Excellent. Now could you distribute patches to our mailers---or at least
gethostbyname()---so that they work as well with your service as with
/etc/hosts? Thanks. And don't forget about VMS.

> To get an internet number for a known hostname:
> telnet ccnext.ucsf.edu 5555

You meant to say ``telnet 128.218.1.109 5555''---right?

---Dan