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From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: Re: name resolution (domainname expansion)
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> Under 2.1.0-R I can do:
> 
> ftp ftp.informatik
> 
> and the system expands this to
> 
> ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de  (as one would expect).
> 
> this doesn't seem to work under 2.2-current.
> 
> I'm getting unknown host instead.

Do you have HOSTALIASES set on your 2.1 box?


Nate