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From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
Subject: Re: Is the DNS "working"?
Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET)
Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY
Date: 24 Apr 91 12:35:06
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In-Reply-To: emv@ox.com's message of 19 Apr 91 23:00:15 GMT
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In article <EMV.91Apr19190011@poe.aa.ox.com> emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) writes:

   If you capture the addresses of the originating sites to the old
   machine, it would be interesting to see a breakdown of what operating
   systems were involved.  Dollars to donuts quite a few are running KA9Q
   net.exe. 

I'll take you up on that bet.  I studied a more-or-less random sample
of machines over a day and a half[1].  I telnetted to the machine, and
captured the output.  Of the machines listed below, only 6 could
*possibly* be KA9Q, and none are *definitely* KA9Q.

    [1] For the statistically-minded, I took the first 40 machines
    that tried to FTP to the old machine on Monday and Tuesday (4/22
    and 4/23).  I discarded duplicate attempts.  All results are included,
    even failures to connect.  This would *seem* to be random, but then
    again, statistics are full of surprising correlations.

I'll take a dozen please (plain donuts will be fine):

	Russell Nelson
	11 Grant St.
	Potsdam, NY 13676

The machine identifications are (and some of them are *really* weird):

                              Node MV218
                    Curtin Computing Centre VAX7 - VMS 5.3
                    VAX 8650 VMS System
4.3 BSD UNIX (olivej)
4.3 BSD UNIX (sdcsvax.ucsd.edu) (ttyp1)
4.3 BSD UNIX (tbd2.brl.mil)
Bull DPX (riri)
Connection closed by foreign host.
DYNIX(R) V3.0.17.9  (hydra.gatech.edu)
Domain/OS sr10 (sys2)
Enter validation for service access.
NeXT Mach (calvin) (ttyp0)
PRIMENET 21.0.4m APOLLO
SunOS UNIX (att)
SunOS UNIX (bill.UCSC.EDU)
SunOS UNIX (cec2)
SunOS UNIX (dip.eecs.umich.edu)
SunOS UNIX (engr)
SunOS UNIX (gilmer)
SunOS UNIX (gumbo)
SunOS UNIX (homer)
SunOS UNIX (kiss)
SunOS UNIX (mesunw54)
SunOS UNIX (splinter)
SunOS UNIX (sun.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk)
SunOS UNIX (sunee)
System V.3.1 / UTS 2.0 (tamuts)
ULTRIX V4.0 (Rev. 179) (neptune)
ULTRIX-32 (lepus)
UNISYS 5000 Series         - This login banner resides in /etc/issue
USC Student Computing Facility -- SunOS Unix (aludra.usc.edu) (ttypc)
VAX/VMS V5.2 on RUGR86 (VAX 8650 at RuG)
VIRTUAL MACHINE/SYSTEM PRODUCT                     
login:
telnet: connect: Connection timed out
telnet: connect: Connection timed out
telnet: connect: Host is unreachable
telnet: connect: Host is unreachable
telnet: connect: Host is unreachable
telnet: connect: Network is unreachable
--
--russ <nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu> I'm proud to be a humble Quaker.
It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear -- Freeman Dyson
I joined the League for Programming Freedom, and I hope you'll join too.
