On 2012-12-17 17:58, Brian Hechinger wrote: On 12/17/2012 11:56 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2012-12-17 17:42, sampsa at mac.com wrote: RHESUS serves node info on these by the way, the URL is: http://rhesus.sampsa.com/cgi-bin/hecnetinfo/hecnetinfo.com Rather cute. I could do that on MIM nowadays... Maybe some more information from NCP on what it knows could be cool? How often to you update your node database? I really do need to get back to my mapping utility. I've given up on scripting it since the lack of recursion is kinda killing me. Is there a way to access NCP from a library so I can write it in something like C? I've never seen any. I think Peter might have something for TOPS-20, though... ;-) However, the general thing isn't hard in principle. Anyone can open a connection to NCP and talk. However, I don't know if the NICE protocol has enough documentation around, or if people have just reverse engineered parts of it. And then of course, you need to talk DECnet, but the API to DECnet is usually not so hard to play with. Johnny