Well, I will nmap those Apple IP addresses... Apple has a full class A address space I think, so this may take awhile. It has been a long time... not sure what port I am looking for... does NIS even work these days??
________________________________ From: Neil Donahue <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 9, 2022 2:08 PM To: Kurt L Keville Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: Any NeXTperts out there? Wow. As far as I can tell, Simson Garfinkel is now working at DHS or maybe the Census Bureau. If there is anybody who I would think might actually remember how to do this it would be him. Second bet is Andy Stone. Neil M. Donahue, Lord University Professor of Chemistry Departments of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Engineering and Public Policy, and Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies Director Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research Doherty Hall 2116 Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 (412) 268-4415 On May 9, 2022, at 13:39 , Kurt L Keville <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: So I finally decided to donate a NeXT Machine to the Computer Museum... I think the last time this was booted was 20 years ago, but even if it was, it did not find an ntp server back then according to the syslog... I have done everything that NeXTAnswer 2152 Restoring Root Password tells me to do... and it appears to be sticking after I look at /etc/passwd but it does not work at the GUI prompt. I suspect this has something to do with it looking for, and then failing to find, yellowpages. I seem to remember something about that. I am not particularly married to any content on the drive so I think I could do something drastic if need be... although I think I can just set it to boot bypassing the password prompt, yes? I might also see if I can find a place outside of MIT that will issue it a routable IP address and see if any of the server addresses it is trying to hit are still alive. That is just crazy enough that Apple might still have those addresses. Not everyone is selling their address space off to Amazon. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
