Subject: Re: your mail
To: Brian D. Carlstrom <bdc@ai.mit.edu>
From: Scott Reynolds <scott@lisa.acs.nmu.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 04/12/1994 16:31:29
On Tue, 12 Apr 1994, Brian D. Carlstrom wrote:

> seems like after updating libraries that hostname lookup in the tcp/ip
> clients is failing. named seems to be working, since i can use a host
> program to look ip addresses (as well as nslookup) but telnet rsh rlogin
> ftp etc all return such as:
> 
> 	fnord# telnet blackjack.ai.mit.edu
> 	blackjack.ai.mit.edu: Error 0

I found the same thing.  While I didn't investigate further, I did find a 
workaround:  create an /etc/resolv.conf and add a "domain" line to it.

--scott

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