Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!SCCGATE.SCC.COM!enger From: enger@SCCGATE.SCC.COM (Robert M. Enger) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Subject: Re: Network names via DNS Message-ID: <9003210824.AA07016@sccgate.scc.com> Date: 21 Mar 90 08:24:33 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: inet Organization: The Internet Lines: 64 Gents: I know of atleast one system that provides some sort of output: Bill Melohn's DNS based shared C library, for SunOS. With an /etc/networks file containing only a loopback entry, a netstat -r returns mostly numeric entries, but it DOES find a few hearty souls that have spent the time to put their network info into the DNS. It even shows my local subnets. (the following is highly abridged/truncated. The DNS entries are very sparse!) To the best of my understanding of the workings, it looks like even some fairly important networks have not been entered into the DNS. For instance, Arpanet, Milnet, Stanford's net-36, and even ISI's own 128.9.0.0. (I find the latter hard to believe, given that Paul wrote the spec. Maybe I'm doing something wrong?) Routing tables Destination Gateway Flags Refcnt Use Interface uionet.uio.no Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 2 le0 Whse-ether.contel-wt Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 3074 le0 Colo-GND-PP.contel-w Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 221 le0 8.0.0.0 Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 0 le0 128.8.0.0 Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 1 203 le0 WTP-3North-ether.con Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 0 le0 ProNet-80.contel-wtp Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 1484 le0 hubnet.itd.nrl.navy. Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 0 le0 Colorado-ether.conte Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 1433 le0 btc.kodak.com Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 0 le0 css-graminae.CSS.GOV Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 0 le0 WTP-0South-ether.con Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 0 le0 WTP-4South-ether.con Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 0 le0 ISS-WTP-PP.contel-wt Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 0 le0 NYU-NET Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 0 le0 net.ohio-state.edu Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 1 3 le0 10.0.0.0 sccgate UG 0 79 le0 WTP-4North-ether.con Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 0 le0 WTP-0North-ether.con Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 1662 le0 MIS-ProNet10.contel- Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 0 le0 WTP-2North3-ether.co Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 1692 le0 ALCIDE.CA Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 0 le0 apollo-ring.inria.fr Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 0 le0 zero-bnet.mitre.org Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 0 le0 css-ring.CSS.GOV Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 0 le0 WTP-1South-ether.con Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 227 le0 WTP-5South-ether.con Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 0 le0 brown-edu.brown.edu Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 0 le0 css-ring.CSS.GOV Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 0 le0 WTP-1South-ether.con Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 227 le0 WTP-5South-ether.con Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 0 le0 BRCAST.CS.YALE.EDU Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 3 le0 36.0.0.0 Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 1 le0 uwo-net.uwo.ca Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 0 le0 ether.nrl.navy.mil Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 1 le0 WTP-Colo-PP.contel-w Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 0 le0 MCSNET-BCAST.BU.EDU Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 3 le0 css-ether.CSS.GOV Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 4 le0 WTP-2South-ether.con Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 0 le0 net5-ether.contel-wt Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 0 le0 HARRIS-SEMI Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 0 le0 IRISA-NET.irisa.fr Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 0 le0 paris-sud.fr Ring3.wtp.contel.com UG 0 0 le0