[Info-vax] What would you miss if DECnet got the chop? Was: "bad select 38" (OpenSSL on VMS)

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-10-06 14:53:14 +0000, Dirk Munk said:

> Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> On 2016-10-06 07:25:24 +0000, Dirk Munk said:
>> 
>>> Well then, let me give you a very good reason to scrap....
>> 
>> Get off of DECnet.
> 
> The nice thing about DECnet Phase V over IP is that you can use IP DNS 
> names and thus IP addresses.
> 
> So dir vsi.com::dka0: works in DECnet Phase V.
> 
> Build a replacement in pure IP, and tell us when it's ready.

DIRECTORY /FTP works fine without DECnet, and supports domain names.   
Available since V6.2.

SFTP support, a decent client for SMB, and, yes, IP-based FAL-like 
support would be nice.  Particularly with encryption and authentication.

But DECnet is still dead.






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