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From: coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: More about Mac ARP and Telnet
Message-ID: <1991Jun4.173337.22@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 4 Jun 91 17:33:37 GMT
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zben@ni.umd.edu (Ben Cranston) writes:
>In article <1991Jun02.033105.7873@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
>ejbehr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Eric Behr) writes:
>> ... rather the fact that I was using the BYU modification of NCSA Telnet.
>> BYU Telnet, as far as I could determine, doesn't use the MacTCP resolver!

>I'm running NCSA Telnet version 2.4 (MacTCP) 3/14/91 which I believe is the
>latest available

The most recent version is 2.4b11 5/8/91.

>and when I comment out the "nameserver" entries in the
>config.tel file it no longer is able to convert names to numbers, even though
>programs *I* wrote that *do* use the MacTCP dns stuff are quite able to lookup
>host names at the same time.  Thus I claim that *no* NCSA telnet makes use
>of the MacTCP lookup stuff, they ALL do it themselves...

I'm currently running 2.4b11 with no nameserver entries in my config.tel
and happily resolving names. I think the bug's been fixed by now...

--John