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From: seeger@manatee.cis.ufl.edu (F. L. Charles Seeger III)
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Subject: Re: Troubled by Talk about IP addresses
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Date: 4 Dec 89 17:49:45 GMT
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In article <1170@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu> verber@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Mark A. Verber) writes:
|I understand that not all vendors supply resolvers.  There are two
|responces we should have.  (1) Scream at the vendor until they do
|supply a resolver and network tools that talk to the resolver, (2) use
|schemes that don't force users to use raw ip addresses.

May I suggest (3) Don't buy hardware from vendors that don't either supply
the resolver routines or give you source so that you can fix it yourself.
Get a demo machine and make them show you that it works.

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  Charles Seeger    E301 CSE                 +1 904 335 8053
  CIS Department    University of Florida    MIPS R6000: "The latest Killer
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