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From: Gavin@BALROG.DREA.DND.CA (Gavin L. Hemphill)
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Subject: WKS Records
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Date: 30 Oct 89 14:51:00 GMT
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WKS records ARE used by some systems.  For example the symbolics uses
them to decide between the different types of interactive connections
(telnet, supdup, etc.) and different types of file connections.  For
example if the Symbolics can't find SMTP in the WKS records it will
refuse to even attemt to deliver mail to the target system.

The Symbolics also uses the HINFO records to figure out if the remote
file system is one of the ones supported by the generic file system for
FTP operations.

I suggest you really want to put the WKS and HINFO records into your
domain database.

	G++
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