Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!cmcl2!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: What is RESPONDER? Message-ID: <3507@phri.UUCP> Date: 24 Sep 88 18:46:02 GMT References: <15393@ames.arc.nasa.gov> Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 16 raymond@pluto.arc.nasa.gov (Eric A. Raymond) writes: > Any idea what the RESPONDER init does? It seems to register my machine > with some sort of appletalk resource, but this doesn't seemed to be used. > Guess I need yet another piece of "optional" apple software. Responder responds to requests from Inter*Poll for information. Inter*Poll is an Apple product (order number M-0697) which is sort of ruptime, ping, and finger rolled into one. If you are administering an AppleTalk network with more than just a few nodes, you almost certainly should have Inter*Poll; with it you can see who's on the net, what version of the system software they are running, test network connectivity, etc. -- Roy Smith, System Administrator Public Health Research Institute {allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!roy -or- phri!roy@uunet.uu.net "The connector is the network"