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)
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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
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"The connector is the network"