From: Nathaniel Talbott <nathaniel@...>
Date: 2003-09-26T23:02:51+09:00
Subject: Re: TCPSocket.gethostbyname difficulties

ts [mailto:decoux@moulon.inra.fr] wrote:

> N>   ntalbott@proxytest:~$ host cancer.org
> N>   cancer.org has address 209.135.47.118
> N>   cancer.org has address 0.0.0.0
> 
>  Why do you want to work with something which is broken ?
> 
> svg% host 209.135.47.118
> Host 118.47.135.209.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
> svg% 

Because my customers want to access broken sites, and they don't care that
they're broken. They'll tell me, "It loads in my browser... why can't your
system find it?" If I can't get this to work, I'll just have to stop
checking DNS, which would be unfortunate.

Thanks, Guy.


Nathaniel

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