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Subject: Re: name resolution (domainname expansion)
To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 19:45:44 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <199607021602.KAA15462@rocky.mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Jul 2, 96 10:02:27 am"
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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?

If you tell me where it is set. Do you mean in the environment?
No.


> 
> 
> Nate
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de