From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 27 04:18:31 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id EAA26276 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 04:18:31 -0800 Received: from tfs.com (tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id EAA26271 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 04:18:28 -0800 Received: from critter.tfs.com by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) with SMTP id m0tK2Vk-0003vkC; Mon, 27 Nov 95 04:18 PST Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA02241; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 13:18:10 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: critter.tfs.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Amancio Hasty Jr." cc: Luigi Rizzo , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1 release sysinstall In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 26 Nov 1995 20:00:42 PST." <199511270400.UAA00415@rah.star-gate.com> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 13:18:09 +0100 Message-ID: <2239.817474689@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > Querying foreign hosts with SNMP is considered bad style, and is very > > unlikely to yield responses anyway. > Hi, > > "bad style" and "foreign hosts" not sure what to make out of that if > the hosts are freebsd hosts or are hosting freebsd. At any rate for sure > we can use snmp to query hosts which are running snmp daemons. ... if we have the owners permission. Even if we did query with SNMP, what would you ask for ? I guess that the best thing so far would be to send a single ping to all the servers, order by return TTL and turn-around, and take the best. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.