Re: lynx-dev problem at DejaNews

[*selah*]

[I had posted this yesterday but didn't see an answer. I thought I might
have missed it with the resubscribing, so I thought to repost it.]

On Sun, 3 May 1998, Al Gilman wrote:

> to follow up on what *selah* said:
> > 
> > Our isp is using the SunOs 4.1.3_U1
> > 
> 
> That's one of the versions affected by the bug I was talking about.
> Review the reference I gave you.
> 
> > > References:
> > >   35. file://localhost/ftp/asgilman/public_html/lynx/FAQ/webcrawler.html
> 
> 
> As Gil did, you can test to see if this is the bug by testing to
> see if ping or telnet will also crash on some many-IP domain
> name.
> 
> If that is the problem, you can either get people to apply the
> patch to Unix or yourself get the bind library and build Lynx
> with it the way Henry recommends.
> 
> Al
> 

I checked out the bind library but there seems to be 3 different tar files
there and I didn't see any information on which programs to use or how to
link them to lynx.