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From: tobeye@northstar.dartmouth.edu (Anthony Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: Name Resolver disabled
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Date: 28 Feb 90 16:19:22 GMT
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Perhaps you can help me.  I installed ATK4 from the X11 release tape and
everything worked fine.  I applied patches 1 and 2 and things were still
honky-dorry.  Then, I applied the latest patch (we're at 3 now, right?)
and now Messages doesn't recognize that our system uses the Name
Resolver for mail address.

I have verified that NAME_RESOLVER in the ./config directory IS defined
and never undefined.

Perhaps a clue:  before this problem arose, I discovered an error in the
compile whereby the symbol dn_skip() came up undefined.  I back-tracked
this problem to a file in the ./overhead/mail/lib directory whereby I
needed to force DN_SKIP to be dn_skipname() rather than dn_skip().

Why I think the NAME_RESOLVER is the problem:  When I send a message to
a foreign host, even one that ends in .edu, I must verify that that
hosts exists.  I definitely did not have to do this before.  Local hosts
that I know are in our /etc/hosts file never cause problems.

Any ideas?  Can I give you more info?

   - Anthony