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From: coolidge@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: nntpxmit and host names
Summary: Possibly DNS problems?
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Date: 17 Nov 89 00:08:26 GMT
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dsill@relay.nswc.navy.mil (Dave Sill) writes:
>I recently upgraded from version 1.5 to 1.5.7 (and switched from B
>news to C, but that's another story).  Now nntpsend/nntpxmit can't
>seem to look-up hostnames, e.g. nap1.cds.wpafb.af.mil (one of my
>feeds) but have no problem with 129.48.1.1 (one of nap1's addresses).

nntpxmit is, I think, set up by default to link with libresolv. If
you're not using DNS lookup (resolv.conf, etc), then this is almost
certainly the wrong think. Compiling without the -lresolv commented
out will look things up in either the static tables or YP if you're
running it.

--John

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