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Re: Can't ping to other ip addesss



Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:51:12 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote:
>> Florian Kulzer writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> > If you want to search for utilities with generic names then it helps to
>> > use apt-file like this:
>> >
>> > apt-file search "bin/ip" | grep '/ip$'
>> 
>> I use dialup so I've never been willing to download the huge database 
>> for apt-file.
>
> http://packages.debian.org/file:bin/ip
>
> (This weighs in at about 8 kB if you do not load images.)

Thanks, I hadn't know about that.  I just noticed that the surfraw
package includes a debcontents program which does just about the same
thing, so that's even easier for me.
-- 
Carl Johnson		carlj@peak.org


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