[Xastir] Xastir forgetting DNS???

[Wes Johnston]

Ahh, but I can run traceroute and ping from a terminal window.... it's 
xastir which can't talk to the tcp stack.... I think it's something to do 
with being out of my subnet and having to use a gateway.... dunno.
Wes


At 08:59 PM 10/22/2003, Jerry Chamberlin wrote:
>traceroute second.aprs.net
>it usually dies somewhere.
>
>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.
> >
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