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From: Peter Rottengatter <perot@pallas.amp.uni-hannover.de>
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On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Ronald Andersson wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Jan 1997 13:27:39 Peter Rottengatter <perot wrote: 
> >
> >.... isn't it ? You'll ask why I guess. Well today I got STiK V2.0 talking 
> >to other machines. I managed to ping my second Atari via the Midi ports, 
> >and I managed to ping some workstations and nameservers at my university.
> >The success is due so some fixed bugs in SERIAL.STX, which I'll send 
> >about in a couple of days. So this means that most parts of the IP, ICMP, 
> >and SLIP/serial layers are working properly now ! Next thing I must do is 
> >writing a basic traceroute, which will enable me to test parts of the UDP 
> >and the time-to-live handling inside the core.
> >
> >And, IMHO, soon the time comes to let the outside world know what's going 
> >on. STiK V2.0 is actually doing something sensible now, and once Dan has 
> >got the TCP.STX working the time is come to extensively test with the 
> >clients (i.e. CAB, Newsie etc.).
> 
> I suspect you mean this testing to be done with 'pure' IP numbers for all
> addresses, since we still have no sensinble progress report on resolver.
> 
> Then everyone who wants to do this should start saving their DOMAIN.TXT
> files (renamed) into a backup folder, because they will be erased
> occasionally by STiK (size limit?), and you'll need those numbers.

Yepp, that's true. All those who just lost all : You can try to ping your 
nameserver too, you should have it's IP address, or ping my workstation 
at university : 130.75.75.16 The latter's round-trip time will be a 
little larger for you I suspect ;-), for me it's a quarter of a second.


Cheers  Peter

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