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Subject:	Re: GNU pkg for ping, traceroute, etc. (Was: Sluggish nntp performance)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date:	Thu, 14 Oct 1999 20:53:48 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Jeremy Sproat writes: > 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... Erm... binutils, perhaps? And try the Cygnus distro whilst you're at it.... Cheers, Roger

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		Re: GNU pkg for ping, traceroute, etc. (Was: Sluggish nntp performance)
(...) Checked that, and checked that also. Binutils seems to be primarily compiler tools. Fileutils is basic file management, copying, moving, linking, etc. Textutils is basic text manipulation tools. Inetutils is a decent suite of servers and (...) (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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		GNU pkg for ping, traceroute, etc. (Was: Sluggish nntp performance)
(...) 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 (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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