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Re: lynx-dev Lynx support for 'one part' addresses
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Michael Warner |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev Lynx support for 'one part' addresses |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Mar 1999 18:36:02 -0800 |
On or about 19 Mar, 1999, Bela Lubkin <address@hidden> wrote:
[...]
> Try, for instance,
>
> lynx http://2418215520/lynx/
>
> If that doesn't work, it must be because of a difference in
> the resolver library with which your Lynx was compiled. Lynx
> isn't religious about this aspect of host names. It sees
> it as no different from a string of letters; it feeds it to
> gethostbyname(), which returns a usable binary IP address.
In my case, going through a proxy seems to be what breaks it.
With the proxy, I get an error page:
>The requested URL could not be retrieved
> _____________________________________________________________________
>
> While trying to retrieve the URL: [1]http://2418215520.wa-k20.net/lynx/
>
> The following error was encountered:
> * DNS name lookup failure
>
> The system returned:
> DNS Domain '2418215520.wa-k20.net' is invalid: Host not found
> (authoritative).
>
> This means that:
> The specified host does not exist or its address can't be found.
> _____________________________________________________________________
>
>
> Generated by squid/address@hidden
Note the appended ".wa-k20.net". Bypass the proxy, and it
works fine.
--
Michael Warner "You're cute when you're stupid"
<address@hidden> -- R.A. Miller