🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Article #2130

Re: Name Resolver disabled

#2130
From: Anthony Edwards
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1990 23:33
27 lines
1653 bytes
It turns out that I do have the resolver turned ON.  Somehow, I seemed
to have removed a line from the AndrewSetup file:
	AMS_ValidDomainSuffixes: .edu, .com, .bitnet
which supresses the warning message about hosts not existing if the host
name had one of these suffixes.

I played with the test program that Craig suggested I compile and run. 
It mostly gave me the results that a host was "indeterminate" which on
the program's yes-maybe-no answer scale is a maybe.  I thought name
resolution was more accurate than that, but I guess not.

For those interested in seeing the ouput from the valhost.test program,
here it is:

Test your favorite destination mail domain names.  One at a time, please.
domain: transarc.com
Input: ``transarc.com''; output: ``'' (indeterminate)
domain: hinman
Input: ``hinman''; output: ``'' (indeterminate)
domain: ecs.umass.edu
Input: ``ecs.umass.edu''; output: ``umass.edu'' (indeterminate)
domain: dartmouth.edu
Input: ``dartmouth.edu''; output: ``'' (indeterminate)
domain: andrew.cmu.edu
Input: ``andrew.cmu.edu''; output: ``andrew.cmu.edu'' (good)
domain: northstar
Input: ``northstar''; output: ``northstar.dartmouth.edu'' (good)
Technical Details
Message-ID: <sZv5yyy1eVVaM224kg@northstar.dartmouth.edu>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!NORTHSTAR.DARTMOUTH.EDU!tobeye
References: <sZv3wuH0BwwOJ4AY1g@transarc.com>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!NORTHSTAR.DARTMOUTH.EDU!tobeye
From: tobeye@NORTHSTAR.DARTMOUTH.EDU (Anthony Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: Re: Name Resolver disabled
Message-ID: <sZv5yyy1eVVaM224kg@northstar.dartmouth.edu>
Date: 28 Feb 90 23:33:18 GMT
References: <sZv3wuH0BwwOJ4AY1g@transarc.com>
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 27