Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 13:39:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Hodges <rh@matriplex.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should URL's be pervasive. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10109011332130.86886-100000@mail.matriplex.com> In-Reply-To: <20010831154300.B27173@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, David O'Brien wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 09:58:21AM -0700, Richard Hodges wrote: > > > On the other hand, what exactly is http://www.ufp.org supposed to be useful > > > for when www.ufp.org is the same thing. > > > > Why not parse it literally? For instance, http://www.ufp.org > > would imply TCP, dest port 80, and host www.ufp.org. > > > > For ping, that would imply that I want to test the three-way > > handshake on whatever is listening on port 80 at www.ufp.org > > Do you have *ANY* clue how ping works??? It doesn't use TCP, for > starters... Duh! I KNOW that ping uses ICMP echo request. This thread is about a "what if" situation, and I was simply carrying to what I think was the logical conclusion. Did I claim that this would be a useful feature? NO! If you get a spare moment, why don't you (re)read Jonathon Swift's "A modest proposal". It's a good read. > > For traceroute, I want to send a series of TCP SYN packets to > > www.ufp.org, port 80 with increasing TTL values. Perhaps this > > would be a way to test connectivity to a service behind a firewall. > > Do you know how traceroute works?? For one, the destination host cannot > be listening on the port used. And you know that each progressive > traceroute packet sent out bumps the destination port by one, to help > trace the ICMP "time exceeded" / "port unreachable" responses. David, you obviously know a lot of things, but having a sense of humor would be of great help here. Jeez... -Richard ------------------------------------------- Richard Hodges | Matriplex, inc. Product Manager | 769 Basque Way rh@matriplex.com | Carson City, NV 89706 775-886-6477 | www.matriplex.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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