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Re: GNU pkg for ping, traceroute, etc. (Was: Sluggish nntp performance)
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Thu, 14 Oct 1999 21:46:09 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Jeremy Sproat writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Roger D. Parks writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Jeremy Sproat writes:
> > > 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....
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> 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 clients for telnet, ftp, etc. But no ping, no traceroute, no
> nuthin'. :-(
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> I went to DJ Delorie's site http://www.delorie.com/gnu/ and scanned the doc
> titles and the distros for "ping" and "trace", but no cigar...
Well.
I've no quick answers today either.
<grump> Haven't got Linux moiunted on a box local to me, so I can't check that
way either. I'll have a look at the Caldera distro running on my development
box at home tonight.
You know... the back of the mind claims to have seen something under the GPL
that was a ping/tracroute. Have you tried Google for this?
Cheers,
Roger
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