Network Working Group R. Clements

Request for Comments: 844 February 1983

           Who Talks ICMP, too?
        Survey of 18 February 1983

A survey was undertaken to determine how many hosts are able to respond to TELNET connections from a user at a class C site. This requires, in addition to IP and TCP, participation in gateway routing via ICMP and handling of class C addresses.

The list of hosts was taken from RFC843, extracting only those

hosts which are listed there as accepting TELNET connections.

The tests were run on 18-Feb-83 from 3 PM to 6:30 PM EST
from a terminal concentrator located at 192.1.2.22, at BBN. This net (192.1.2.xxx) is connected to the internet through a routing gateway, and this terminal concentrator speaks ICMP including redirection and reporting to the user.

The connection attempts were done manually by typing the dotted form addresses, so only three passes were made through the table of hosts. Therefore a few may have been missed due to being down at these times.

Summary information:

Type # OK ut of OK

---- ---- ----- ----

On net 10       77      21      3.6%
other class A   20      4       8.8%
non-class A     30      2       3.8%

Total 127 87 7.9%

Name               Address       Result
----               -------       ------
ll                 10.0.0.10       no response
compion-vms        10.0.0.12       no response
ames-tss           10.0.0.16       refused
mitre              10.0.0.17       OK
radc-multics       10.0.0.18       OK
nbs-vms            10.0.0.19       no response
usc-eclb           10.0.0.23       OK
nadc               10.0.0.24       OK
seismo             10.0.0.25       OK
usc-isid           10.0.0.27       OK
brl                10.0.0.29       no response
nosc-cc            10.0.0.3        OK
cca-unix           10.0.0.31       OK
parc-maxc          10.0.0.32       OK
purdue             10.0.0.37       OK
utah-cs            10.0.0.4        host unreachable
wpafb              10.0.0.47       no response
afwl               10.0.0.48       no response
bbn-tenexb         10.0.0.49       OK
bbnf               10.0.0.5        OK
ada-vax            10.0.0.52       no response
afsc-ad            10.0.0.53       no response
cit-20             10.0.0.54       OK
sumex-aim          10.0.0.56       OK
nyu                10.0.0.58       no response
mit-multics        10.0.0.6        OK
utexas-11          10.0.0.62       OK
usgs1-multics      10.0.0.68       OK
usgs2-multics      10.0.0.69       OK
usgs3-multics      10.0.0.70       OK
sri-nic            10.0.0.73       OK
ucb-arpa           10.0.0.78       no response
nrl                10.0.0.8        no response
hi-multics         10.0.0.80       OK
dtnsrdc            10.0.0.81       OK
bbnt               10.0.0.82       OK
nswc-dl            10.0.0.84       OK
sandia             10.0.0.87       OK
nlm-mcs            10.0.0.88       OK
lanl-unix          10.0.0.90       OK
washington         10.0.0.91       OK