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- From: bob@sparkie.nrri.umn.edu (Robert I. Benett)
- Subject: Re: Compuserve's Internet Address
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- Organization: U of Minnesota, Natural Resources Research Institute
- References: <1isa6iINNsub@rave.larc.nasa.gov> <1993Jan15.232826.7807@oclc.org>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:53:11 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan15.232826.7807@oclc.org> pallas@oclc.org (George Pallas) writes:
- >ddo@wsun2.larc.nasa.gov (Dale Ohmann) writes:
- >: The problem comes with internet names that our name resolver can't
- >: resolve. One example is "compuserve.com". A user's address would
- >: be of the format: "12345.123@compuserve.com". On another brand
- >: machine I can send mail to Compuserve. On the Sun that I'm
- >: configuring I can't. The mail comes back as "deferred". Actually,
- >: in the mail spool directory, the message is
- >: "Deferred: Name Server Failure for compuserve.com".
- >
- >Make sure /etc/resolv.conf is properly pointing to your DNS name
- >server(s).
- >
- >: A quick fix might be to find out what is the Internet address for
- >: Compuserve is and add it to the local host table.
- >
- >NOT!
- >--
- >--
- >George Pallas
- >Manager, Systems Management Section
- >OCLC, Inc.
-
-
- The above note indicates that someone wants to email to a Compuserve user.
- Seems like I've heard of that working. What I'd really like to know is if
- you can use Compuserve via Internet as if you were using the (usual) dialup
- connection.
-
- Anybody know??
-
-
- Bob Bennett
- bob@sparkie.nrri.umn.edu
- (218) 723-4914
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