Re: [bug-mailutils] DNS name resolution...

[Timothy Carpenter]

Nslookup and ping work with urls.

However, findroute does not work, and is an OSX BSD Unix issue.

Does gethostbyname rely on a particular brand of DNS lookup? If so, any way
to adjust?

Brgds
Tim

On 7/5/03 11:36 am, "Sergey Poznyakoff" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Timothy,
> 
>> timcarpenter% setenv MAIL=pop://address@hidden
>> timcarpenter% ./sfrom
>> mailbox_open: DNS name resolution failed
> 
> This means that mailutils could not resolve the symbolic name
> "yahoo.co.uk" to its IP address. More specifically, the gethostbyname()
> call failed.
> 
> Regards,
> Sergey
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