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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Resolver Error 0 (no error)
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 18:29:28 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199701020846.JAA03861@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jan 2, 97 09:46:43 am
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> Well, to the very least, ``Error 0 (no error)'' is a sad joke.  Either
> there's an error condition, so there should be an error code, or not.

Or the code is bogus and called perror() (or it's own error printing
routine) when errno was 0.

> Anyway, even if so, why does fetch wait for any authoritative answer?
> There's a non-authoritative answer avaiable, and all the required data
> are there (CNAME record, A record for the host).

It wants "The Truth"?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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