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- NCSA Telnet Digest Monday, 19 Oct 1987 Volume 1 : Issue 4
-
- Today's Topics:
- Re: Bomb ID=02 in Mac Version 2.0
- System Bombs
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- Subject: Re: Bomb ID=02 in Mac Version 2.0
- Date: Fri, 16 Oct 87 23:28:45 EDT
- From: Chris Maio <chris@columbia.edu>
-
- I had a similar problem with telnet crashing with ID=02 whenever I specified a
- valid hostname without the trailing domain name. I turned out that telnet was
- unhappy with the answers it was getting from named (version 4.6), perhaps
- because of the way older versions defaulted the top-level domain. Starting up
- the latest version of named (4.7.2beta) "solved" that problem. Rice appears
- to be running the old named, so I'd bet Farrell's seeing the same thing.
-
- Part of the confusion is that I had assumed that telnet would be using the
- nameservers I specified in the config file; instead, it was using the "admin
- host" configured into the kbox, which is running the 2/87 KIP code. Does that
- make sense?
- chris
-
- P.S. I'll join the chorus--ncsa telnet is a really nice piece of work.
-
- [ Ed. Note - NCSA Telnet uses the Name Server specified by the kbox
- first, unless that number is zero. Then it cycles throught the servers
- in the config.tel file if it does not get a response.
- - Gaige ]
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- Subject: System Bombs
- Date: Mon, 19 Oct 87 11:18:37 EDT
- From: "Collins, Herman" <SYSHERM%UKCC.BITNET@UIUCVMD>
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-
- I thought that abbreviations of names in the "config.tel" file were
- causing system bombs, too, but, I tried a few things, and now I think
- that it's an interaction with the name server.
-
- I had the name "a.ms" in my "config.tel" file. If I opened "a.ms", then
- everything was fine. If I opened "a", then I got a system bomb. Next
- I removed the name server lines, and just got "host not in hosts file
- or on server". So I looked a little closer. The name server is a micro
- VAX running BSD 4.3, and it has a line in "/etc/hosts" like this:
-
- 128.163.128.1 a.ms.uku.edu ukma a
-
- If I remove any reference to "a.ms" from my "config.tel" file and open
- "a.ms.uku.edu", then it's OK. If I open "ukma" or "a", then it's bomb
- city. Any ideas?
-
- Herman Collins
- SYSHERM@UKCC (BITNET)
-
- "I'm pretty sure I have my death ray in here somewhere ..." S. Hurt
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