The NetKit distribution contains the following programs: biff, comsatd; finger, fingerd; ftpd; inetd, ping; rpc.bootparamd; ftp; talk, talkd; routed, ripquery; rpcgen, rpcinfo; rup, rusers, rpc.rusersd; rwall, rpc.rwalld; ruptime, rwho, rwhod; telnet, telnetd; tftp, tftpd; timed, timedc; write, writed. Each group of programs can be downloaded separately, or all can be downloaded at once by getting the "netkit-combo" package. glibc systems do not need netkit-rpc. Please note that NetKit is not the same as net-tools.
| Tags | Networking |
|---|---|
| Licenses | BSD Original |
Recent releases


Release Notes: Fixes for security problems in the FTP daemon (linux-ftpd package) and rpcgen (netkit-rpc package) related to printf format string handling, bugfixes to several programsi, and a few new features. For more information, see the comp.os.linux.announce posting.
Recent comments
06 Oct 2001 02:00
Re: tftp in netkit-0.17 is plain broken
> The netkit-tftp-0.17, which is
> distributed
> in RedHat 7.1, plain doesn't work.
> The behavior is to send the WRQ
> request,
> get the ack, then exit before sending
> any data.
> Whomever added the
> "firsttime" variable to
> the loop in tftp.c sendfile() must
> have never
> tested their change because it would
> never
> have worked.
>
> save yourself some time and
> remove it and replace it with the
> tftp
> from the GNU inetutils package.
>
> Is anyone MAINTAINING netkit?
>
> neal nuckolls
Last I heard Red Hat would be the new maintainer, but I only see *.rpm (not news since they don't make packages in .tar.gz for the software they maintain - NEWT, popt...).
05 Oct 2001 17:46
tftp in netkit-0.17 is plain broken
The netkit-tftp-0.17, which is distributed
in RedHat 7.1, plain doesn't work.
The behavior is to send the WRQ request,
get the ack, then exit before sending any data.
Whomever added the "firsttime" variable to
the loop in tftp.c sendfile() must have never
tested their change because it would never
have worked.
save yourself some time and
remove it and replace it with the tftp
from the GNU inetutils package.
Is anyone MAINTAINING netkit?
neal nuckolls