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- In article <CLzr1t.2n0@rd1.interlan.com>,
- Ray Wood <rawood@rd1.InterLan.COM> wrote:
- >drdowns@bach.udel.edu (David Robert Downs) writes:
- >
- >>Hello all,
- >
- >> I have 2 Winsock apps which give "gethostbyname" errors. One is Wintalk
- >>and the other is ws_gmail (an SMTP server for Winsock). I had wintalk
- >>working fine under PCTCP 2.2 and when I upgraded to 2.3 it quit working.
- >
- >I had various problems with the WINSOCK.DLL shipped with v2.3b PC/TCP. I had
- >to FTP a later winsock.dll from their server (vax.ftp.com, I think) .
- I have that too. :) Thanks for your offer to help, but...
- >
-
- I found my problem with the gethostbyname failure thanks to the new version
- of wintalk (great program). When I got the error #1108 (or whatever it is),
- indicating that my machine was not DNS registered, I knew (kinda) where to
- look. The second clue was the about boxes of the 2 offending winsock apps, I
- saw that the machine name was appearing as "bobcat".
-
- My full machine name is "bobcat.cono.udel.edu". I originally followed the
- PCTCP 2.2 manual and put the lines "host-name=bobcat" and "domain-name=cono.udel
- .edu" and put "completion-domain=udel.edu" This worked fine under 2.2 because
- somewhere along the line the full name was generated and passed on to winsock.
- However, in 2.3 only the "host-name=" information is passed, so when a lookup
- was done on bobcat (plus completion domain = bobcat.udel.edu), no such machine
- was found (since it does not exist :).
-
- My first kludge solution was to add just "bobcat" to my hosts table as an
- alias for my machine, but I assume what I need to do is add "cono.udel.edu" to
- a "completion-domain" line. I suppose I should have had this entry all along,
- but that is what I get for being the only one on my subnet.
-
- So, there is no bug, just a different interpretation of the ini file I guess.
- So for any panic I may have caused and thanks to all who offered to help.
-
- David
-
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- From news@bigblue.oit.unc.edu Mon Mar 7 08:43:45 1994
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- Date: 7 Mar 1994 13:43:45 -0500
- From: jon@montego.umcc.umich.edu (Jon Zeeff)
- Message-Id: <2lfsl1$m7c@montego.umcc.umich.edu>
- Organization: UMCC, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Subject: Multiple interfaces and routing
-
- I need a winsock that supports multiple interfaces (at the same time)
- and some simple routing between them. For example, an ethernet
- interface and PPP or slip connection.
-
-