Xref: utzoo comp.protocols.tcp-ip:6640 comp.sys.encore:188 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!elbereth.rutgers.edu!ron.rutgers.edu!ron From: ron@ron.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.sys.encore Subject: Re: An Annex by any other nameserver would smell... Message-ID: Date: 31 Mar 89 18:10:25 GMT References: <68@a.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 14 RWHOD is a pretty lousy program in that each machine broadcasts it's users every 3-5 minutes. That Encore ever used that for getting name to address matching is an extreme kludge. They ought to be embarassed. Part of the rwho message is an indication of the system load and how long it's been up (as displayed by the ruptime command on UNIX). IEN-116 was the original name server, but it never really hit wide use. It is trivial to implement, and hence you can get it going on nearly anything that has UDP on it. BIND is the name of the Berkeley program that implements the IP Domain Name Service on UNIX. This is really what people ought to be using these days, and is really required if you are in a large network environment or are connected to the Internet at large.