Re: weird telnet/dns behaviour on woody

[David Fisher <david@colossus.apana.org.au>]

> When I attempt to telnet from
> either of these two boxes to any other on my network, and I enter a
> non-fully-qualified domain name, diald brings up the line before the
> telnet succeeds. If I enter the fully qualified domain name, the telnet
> works immediately.
> 

Interesting.  I get the same behavior on my home network with a twist.  I have 
a separate woody web server.  If I use Netscape on my woody workstation and 
just use the hostname for the server I get trafic on the modem to the outside, 
with a consequent delay in accessing pages.  The FQDN lets me get straight 
into the web server locally, with no external traffic.

I'll be interested to hear the answer on this one.

-- 
David
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mailto:david.fisher@asic.gov.au

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