Darren J Moffat writes: > Printing and NFS are much more interesting services than remote login > shell services.
Yep; agreed. Even httpd and samba may be better targets. I think the problem here may be a collision between wanting to "show progress quickly" and doing something that's useful on real networks. Getting printing and NFS on board in a useful way is likely to take quite a bit longer. For my part, I have no real objection to seeing inetd enhanced to be able to advertise services. It's at least a proof of concept that lets us work through the various issues (such as on which networks to advertise and how to represent in SMF). I agree, though, that the likelihood that anyone can do something useful with it in a real network is fairly low. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
