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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Beginner's guide to downloading
Summary: There is something wrong with your machine
Message-ID: <230@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 9 Jan 90 12:05:10 GMT
References: <4@amsdev.UUCP> <12771@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <25A987F7.12893@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
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In article <25A987F7.12893@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
	johns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Conan the Barbarian) writes:
>>      uunet.uu.net
>     I try this on my site, and it doesn't like it.  But if I go something
>like 123.0.1.2 I get through (normally).  Question is, how do I convert
>an address like the one you show to numbers like I need?  Thanks.

All Internet-connected sites should use a resolver to translate
names to and from numeric IP addresses.  For most, this means
providing your machine with a list of nameservers that will
act on its behalf.  For example, most UNIX systems store this
information in the file /etc/resolv.conf

Those few sites without resolvers (there shouldn't be many,
although we have an old SGI IRIS that, alas, has this problem)
need to maintain a hosts table for commonly-accessed sites.

Numeric IP addresses are subject to change, and not something you
should memorize or care about normally.

					-=EPS=-