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From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Re: Problem with DNS lookups on a remnote server
Message-ID: <129572@uunet.UU.NET>
Date: 19 Apr 91 23:26:44 GMT
References: <1991Apr19.040730.26703@PacBell.COM>
Organization: UUNET Communications Services, Falls Church, VA
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In an article perl@pbseps.PacBell.COM (Richard Perlman) writes:
>
>It appears telnet (and sendmail) are trying to connect to net 1 and
>while telnet never makes the connection, sendmail can somehow recoup
>and connect to net 2.

One problem may be your default route. Try telnet'ing to both
addresses (not the name). If only one works, you need a default route.

Also, some versions of telnet don't try all addresses, just the first one.
You might be interested in the version in our anonymous ftp directory.
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