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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To: Julian Stacey <jhs@berklix.org>
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On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 08:31:06PM +0100 I heard the voice of
Julian Stacey, and lo! it spake thus:
[...]
> but though `tower' & `thin' are also OK with non fully qualified name `thin',
> running nslookup localy on `flat' now gives errors:
[...]
> /etc/resolv.conf has
> 	# domain        berklix.org
    ^


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      haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"