Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!rex!uflorida!gatech!mcnc!rti!dg-rtp!bigben!bigben!philip From: philip@beeblebrox.dle.dg.com (Philip Gladstone) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: segmentation fault with long host names Message-ID: Date: 21 Dec 90 16:05:56 GMT References: <1990Dec20.203518.24899@cs.widener.edu> Sender: usenet@dle.dg.com (Net News) Organization: Data General, Development Lab Europe Lines: 16 In-Reply-To: brendan@cs.widener.edu's message of 20 Dec 90 20:35:18 GMT >>>>> On 20 Dec 90 20:35:18 GMT, brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) said: Brendan> But this also happens with other things .. dig bitches about a Brendan> truncated answer & says "connection refused"; host sits there staring. Brendan> Only nslookup has ever been able to deal with it. The response that I got from dig seems to point at a potential problem. This host has a *LOT* (26) of address records. Unfortunately I can't test this hypothesis as my ftp doesn't crash when trying to call it. Philip -- Philip Gladstone Dev Lab Europe, Data General, Cambridge, UK Listen three eyes, don't you try and outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.