Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!ohstpy!miavx1!pemurray From: pemurray@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Peter Murray) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Limited version of telnet Message-ID: <3003.27553ed9@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> Date: 29 Nov 90 22:01:12 GMT References: <2974.27527950@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> Lines: 27 In article , enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) writes: > In article <2974.27527950@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> pemurray@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Peter Murray) writes: > > I'm looking for a limited version of TELNET. This program would > only allow connections to one host or a list of hosts in a text > file. What I don't want is this program to is to domain lookups. > > May I suggest that it looks up the name of the host to connect to in a > table to find if it's acceptable, and then do the domain name lookup > to find the address? > > You don't want to reconfigure more than you have to when addresses > change, and you don't want the text table to contain errors. > > Morale: Always use the DNS. Excellent suggestion. Thank you. If/when I have to write this, it will have this function. If no one has seen any software to do this, can someone please e-mail me a site that has the telnet source. Thanks. Peter -- Peter Murray Neat UNIX Stunts #5: pemurray@miavx1.bitnet 176 Thompson Hall sh> drink