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Subject:	GNU pkg for ping, traceroute, etc. (Was: Sluggish nntp performance)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date:	Thu, 14 Oct 1999 20:40:09 GMT
Reply-To:	JSPROAT@IOsaynotospam.COM
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Matthew Miller wrote: > nslookup. It's prettier than 'host', but tells you basically the same thing. > I got the 155M out of the hostname. It's nice when people name their routers > meaningfully. :) Which GNU package do I get ping and traceroute and host, etc. from? They're not in inetutils; they doesn't seem to be anywhere... Cheers, - jsproat -- Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/ Jeremy: "Hi, my name is Jeremy Sproat, and I'm a...Slashdot Lemming." All: "Hi, Jeremy."

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		Re: GNU pkg for ping, traceroute, etc. (Was: Sluggish nntp performance)
(...) Erm... binutils, perhaps? And try the Cygnus distro whilst you're at it.... Cheers, Roger (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

		Re: GNU pkg for ping, traceroute, etc. (Was: Sluggish nntp performance)
(...) I don't think they're GNU. My ping program came from the base linux netkit, and traceroute (originally) from <URL:ftp://ftp.ee.lb...te.tar.Z>. (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

		Re: GNU pkg for ping, traceroute, etc. (Was: Sluggish nntp performance)
(...) If you're looking for Windows progs I think I got a bunch of this stuff from the "Virtually Unix" site once upon a time. I don't have the URL, but you could search for it. I think my version of traceroute is called hopcount.exe though. Not (...) (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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		Re: Sluggish nntp performance
(...) nslookup. It's prettier than 'host', but tells you basically the same thing. I got the 155M out of the hostname. It's nice when people name their routers meaningfully. :) (25 years ago, 13-Oct-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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