Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!NORTHSTAR.DARTMOUTH.EDU!tobeye From: tobeye@NORTHSTAR.DARTMOUTH.EDU (Anthony Edwards) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Name Resolver disabled Message-ID: Date: 28 Feb 90 23:33:18 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 27 It turns out that I do have the resolver turned ON. Somehow, I seemed to have removed a line from the AndrewSetup file: AMS_ValidDomainSuffixes: .edu, .com, .bitnet which supresses the warning message about hosts not existing if the host name had one of these suffixes. I played with the test program that Craig suggested I compile and run. It mostly gave me the results that a host was "indeterminate" which on the program's yes-maybe-no answer scale is a maybe. I thought name resolution was more accurate than that, but I guess not. For those interested in seeing the ouput from the valhost.test program, here it is: Test your favorite destination mail domain names. One at a time, please. domain: transarc.com Input: ``transarc.com''; output: ``'' (indeterminate) domain: hinman Input: ``hinman''; output: ``'' (indeterminate) domain: ecs.umass.edu Input: ``ecs.umass.edu''; output: ``umass.edu'' (indeterminate) domain: dartmouth.edu Input: ``dartmouth.edu''; output: ``'' (indeterminate) domain: andrew.cmu.edu Input: ``andrew.cmu.edu''; output: ``andrew.cmu.edu'' (good) domain: northstar Input: ``northstar''; output: ``northstar.dartmouth.edu'' (good)