re what is going on paul repacholi zrepachol cc curtin edu au wrote ps the first posting i saw i thought was a joke in very bad taste my appologies to the person who broke the news for what it s worth clipper chip announcement clipper csrc ncsl nist gov wrote note this file will also be available via anonymous file transfer from csrc ncsl nist gov in directory pub nistnews and via the nist computer security bbs at the white house i haven t been able to open an ftp session with that machine operating under the assumption that the address was wrong i tried using nslookup and nicname whois ls nist gov nnsc nsf net host or domain name internet address ncsl server mail gw ncsl nist gov mail gw ncsl ncsl server dove nist gov ncsl server ecf ncsl nist gov ecf ncsl ncsl server enh nist gov ncsl server sunmgr ncsl nist gov sunmgr ncsl that s all i could find about the ncsl domain oh and i tried an mx lookup on the machine in question which failed nicname whois domain lookups at both registries failed too so i thought hey i m just not using the tools right and tried calling the bbs number no answer i m probably doing something wrong or perhaps the machine has been put behind a firewall but it does look like csrc ncsl nist gov has become an un machine if someone would try ftp ing to it or knows what s up i d really appreciate the info scott doty sdoty odie santarosa edu
