Copy of STD39 Internet Standard (BBN Report 1822)

From: vrs <vrs_at_msn.com>
Date: Sun Dec 7 05:53:58 2003

> > Good luck. I only located something remotely similar to one copy,
> > but in one unreadable format, in:
> >
> > ftp.univ-angers.fr/pub2/rfc/rfc/std/std39.txt.gz
> >
> > This file is 3.3k long, instead of the 187 bytes of the official
> STD39.txt
>
> What's unreadable about it? It's an ordinary text file, compressed
> with gzip. However, it's not STD39 at all. It's not even related to
> it; it's RFC903, which is about RARP (Reverse Address Resolution
> Protocol). It looks like the people who run that FTP site have not
> only not updated it in ten years, they've accidentally copied their
> STD38 file as STD39.

FWIW, I also got unreadable cruft when I used WinZip to extract std39.txt.

    Vince
Received on Sun Dec 07 2003 - 05:53:58 GMT