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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