Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!think!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!delta!Delta.CS.MsState.Edu!peters From: peters@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank W. Peters) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: DNS Query server? Message-ID: Date: 7 Feb 90 20:30:04 GMT References: <9002051330.AA00323@cheops.columbia.sparta.com> Sender: usenet@delta.cs.msstate.edu Organization: Computing Center, Mississippi State University Lines: 33 In-reply-to: hsw@SPARTA.COM's message of 5 Feb 90 13:30:23 GMT In article <9002051330.AA00323@cheops.columbia.sparta.com> hsw@SPARTA.COM (Howard Weiss) writes: From: hsw@SPARTA.COM (Howard Weiss) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Date: 5 Feb 90 13:30:23 GMT Actually, I believe that what Frank Peters was looking for was the service that host 128.218.1.109 provides on port 5555 - you simply connect to that host at that port, type in a fully formed internet host name and it responds with an internet address and closes the connection. I used it when I had a host that still only had /etc/hosts and it did just what I needed - which was basically a manual nslookup. Yes! This is exactly what I want! We're working on some networking code on a UNISYS 1100 system that runs an operating system called Exec8, doesn't have a C compiler or socket library and which has NO usable hosts file system (as near as I understand it the hosts file is compiled into the it's front-end-processors OS...so the FEP has to be rebooted to add a new host to the table!!). But enough about our troubles. Where can I get a copy of the above software? the machine referenced above doesn't have an anonymous FTP and the only machine at ucsf that I can find which does have anonFTP (ccb.ucsf.edu) doesn't seem to have it either. Any ideas? --Frank Frank W. Peters Systems Programmer Computing Center & Services peters@CC.MsState.Edu Peters@MsState.Bitnet (601)325-2942 "I can't give you brains, but I can give you a diploma." -- The Wizard of OZ