Subj : Win Version                         was: Bug report
To   : Mike Tripp
From : Bob Seaborn
Date : Fri Mar 30 2012 08:33 am

> Hello mark!
>
> 19 Mar 12 14:44, mark lewis wrote to Mike Tripp:
>
>MT>> Or kludge a HOSTS entry so that fidonet resolves however you
>MT>> wish?
>
>ml> can you do something similar to CNAME in the HOSTS file? it is a DNS
>ml> lookup we are trying to handle and the DNS domain that was used no
>ml> longer exists if i've been keeping up properly...
>
>ml> granted, with less than 9000 nodes in fidonet now, it isn't that hard
>ml> to do but i don't know that i want to manage a HOSTS file with that
>ml> many entries ;)
>
> I was just suggesting a single entry that would remap fidonet.net to
> binkp.net's IP as opposed to hex-editing the hard-coded string.  Sorry I


     Have you tried editing Window's HOSTS file?  Or whatever equivalent
other OS's use?



> can't test to sanity-check...don't have any downlinks that require
> Irex's features currently, and didn't use this particular one when I
> did. I would expect resolution to be handled remotely, if you can just
> reach the right resolver.<g>
>
> .\\ike
>
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