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From: taxman@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Beginner's guide to downloading
Message-ID: <154.25a9e108@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>
Date: 9 Jan 90 18:03:04 GMT
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In article <25A987F7.12893@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>, johns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Conan the Barbarian) writes:
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>      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.
 
If you are running Multinet or Wollogong TCP you have a program known as 
NSLOOKUP for name-->address conversion. Another method is to telnet to
NIC.DDN.MIL and use their nameserver database. Im sure there are more ways, but
the aforementioned are the only ones I know of.

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