Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!escher
From: escher@Apple.COM (Michael Crawford)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Broadcasting Adreess and Subnets
Message-ID: <7690@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 13 Apr 90 18:37:33 GMT
References: <9003270339.AA02962@WLV.IMSD.CONTEL.COM> <9003262150.AA14999@asylum.sf.ca.us> <362@jove.dec.com> <16240@smunews.UUCP> <379@jove.dec.com>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <379@jove.dec.com> mogul@decwrl.dec.com (Jeffrey Mogul) writes:
>In article <16240@smunews.UUCP> merlin@csvax.seas.smu.edu (David Hayes) writes:
>>
>>I'm working on a printer accounting program that runs throughout
>>our (subnetted) campus network.  It uses a client-server
>>architecture.  There are multiple, redundant servers.  I wanted
>>our system to be able to find the servers by broadcast [...]


Perhaps you could have the print servers register themselves with the name
server somehow, and then query the name server.
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