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Re: PCCO file locations



On Mon, 28 Aug 1995, Don Whiteside wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Aug 1995, Jane Loyless wrote:
> 
> > http://www.pc.ibm.com/cgi-bin/ftpfiles?action=list&dir=34
> 
> Boy, IBM really has popped a chubby for those Cserve file locations - 
> that's the number of the file library on the IBM compuserve forum. I 
> wonder if they mirror off of _there_ somehow? (Or perhaps they mirror 
> this site _to_ compuserve...)

If you grab a file from the above site, it connects to the host
198.133.22.2 at port 2280.  I tried the following:
^^^
> % nslookup compuserve.com
> 
> Server:  control
> Address:  0.0.0.0
>
> Name:  compuserve.com 
> Addresses:  198.4.6.2, 198.4.6.3, 198.4.8.1, 198.4.8.2
>            198.4.6.1
             ^^^
Hmmmmmm ...
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