Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ncis.tis.llnl.gov!blackbird!lonex.radc.af.mil!ra!fausett From: fausett@ra.radc.af.mil (Mark L. Fausett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: SLIP (was Re: businessland fire sale tactics (eccch)) Message-ID: Date: 15 Nov 90 14:45:41 GMT References: <1635@camex.COM> <1990Nov13.140336.10181@sctc.com> <11081@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <1017@toaster.SFSU.EDU> <4026@network.ucsd.edu> Sender: usenet@lonex.radc.af.mil (USENET Account) Organization: RADC Lines: 32 Nntp-Posting-Host: ra.radc.af.mil In <4026@network.ucsd.edu> pbiron@weber.ucsd.edu (Paul Biron) writes: >>>MUCHO STUFF DELETED<<< >After hounding the local NeXT tech support guy, he finally pointed >me at a site which has a slip which "is supposed to work under 1.0". >He stressed the fact that this slip IS NOT a NeXT product, and >IS NOT supported by NeXT, IS NOT foo, and WILL NOT bar, etc, etc, etc :-) >The site is 129.18.18.3 (sorry don't know the "name" of the machine). And apparently there is no way to get it from the domain name system. From the FTP banner, it appears to be a next though... >Annonymous ftp there and grab it. I did a few days ago. >>>INSERT DELETION HERE<<< Out of curiosity I did some poking around trying to track down this machine - It's network number is registered as: 129.18.rrr.rrr NEXT-NET Connected and indeed a traceroute led to NEXT.BARRNET.NET before machines became uncooperative. Could this be some indication of future SLIP support? Mark Fausett fausett@aivax.radc.af.mil (& if my check gets to businessland in time, a Next Cube owner)