The problem "went" away today. Anyway, the best answer I got was that

ping has this problem if you integrate the bind routines into the

shared C library - i.e. the problem does not occur with the shared

library shipped with 4.1.1. (when will Sun learn that not *everyone*

likes sleeping with NIS). Thanks to Ittai Hershman at NYU for the reply.

Ed Arnold at NCAR mentioned that they got the same problem with 4.1 over

FDDI links.

A lot of people asked me about the ISI ping that I used. I don't remember

where I got it from (try isi.edu), but I have put my copy for anonymous

ftp on NISC.JVNC.NET under pub.

 -vikas

 vikas@jvnc.net (609) 258-2403

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