Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> In article <3CC71780.9040306@mac.com>

> 
> Binaries on ramdisk in old snapshots before March do not support
> DNS resolving. Newer snapshot should support it.

my 1.5.2 install image doesn't resolve either: I remember it well, 
since I ended going thru the install a few times :-(

> 
>>The error is not exactly obvious (though it should have been to 
>>me): I get errors on ftp -a not being able to pull down the sets, 
>>and it looks more like a missing file or path error than a failure 
>>to connect.
> 
> 
> Not all snapshot has X sets. In such case, you can't specify them.

I don't understand this: perhaps I misstated something. The ftp 
command failed to pull down *anything.* That is, until I fixed the 
host value to be an address, rather than a name.

Since I have found that I am not the only one that has been bitten 
by this (and it's no big deal if you have some way to resolve the 
address, either before you begin or while you're doing it), is it 
a PR-able offense? If it didn't work in 1.5.2, how sure are we 
that it will work in future snapshots or releases?



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