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From: resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick)
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Subject: Re: Problems with MacTCP hosts file: seems not to be used
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mak@cs.nott.ac.uk (Martijn Koster) writes:
>   aa->                   A->   128.243.20.4
>   bb.->                  A->   128.243.20.4

I don't think either one of these is valid domain name syntax.

>   dd.cs.nott.ac.uk.->    A->   128.243.20.4
>   ff.nott.ac.uk.->       A->   128.243.20.4

That "." at the end might be screwing you up.

I am also not sure how smart the DNR is. If something in the file is
screwy, it might not be too happy. But the other example you give should
work. I have tabs in my file. You might try without to test it.

>And lastly, doesn't NCSA Telnet 2.3 use MacTCP name resolver? I ended
>up writing a program to convert /etc/hosts to a config.tel file (that
>awk script that came with telnet choked on comments).

Nope. NCSA uses their own resolver. I don't think that will ever change.
(*Sigh*)

pr
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