[Xastir] Xastir forgetting DNS???

Jerry Chamberlin jerryc at netlab.org
Wed Oct 22 20:58:52 EDT 2003


I have had same problem for long time.

I think you are wasting time looking at XASTIR.
It's all in the Servers and routers on the Internet.



On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Wes Johnston wrote:
> 
> > >What happens if you put in the IP address of second.aprs.net instead
> > >of the domain name?  Same thing?
> >
> > I still get hard fail.... second.aprs.net is a rotating DNS lookup.... at
> > the time I pinged it in terminal window, it showed 134.173.254.38
> 
> Ah!  The light comes on.  What happens if you keep doing telnet's
> again and again, either closing each one in turn and retrying, or
> doing it from multiple windows?
> 
> I'll bet you get some error messages at times because some of the
> servers in the rotating DNS are not responding, or are responding
> quickly back to you with a rejection.
> 
> -- 
> Curt Mills, WE7U                    hacker_NO_SPAM_ at tc.fluke.com
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