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- From: mesm@netcom.com (Mary E. S. Morris)
- Subject: Re: DNS/IP
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.210813.6368@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <SDORE.92Nov18114214@zeppelin.inesc.pt>
- Distribution: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 21:08:13 GMT
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- sdore@zeppelin.inesc.pt (Sergio F.Dore Soares) writes:
- :
- : I would like to know why I can only use the number IP instead the DNS
- : name on SunOs 4.1.2 ? If I put ftp 123.23.44 it works but if I put ftp
- : csu.bu.edu it doesn't work and apears "unknown host: csu.bu.edu". Is it
- : possible to resolve this problem ?
- : Thanks in advance,
- :
- Start by checking to see that the /etc/resolv.conf file points
- to a valid DNS server.
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- Mary E. S. Morris | The future exists first in imagination, then
- mesm@netcom.COM | in will, then in reality. -- Galivan Burwell
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