Re: lynx-dev Lynx support for 'one part' addresses

[Michael Warner]

On or about 19 Mar, 1999, Bela Lubkin <address@hidden> wrote:

        [...]

> Try, for instance,
>
>   lynx http://2418215520/lynx/
>
> If that doesn't work, it must be because of a difference in
> the resolver library with which your Lynx was compiled.  Lynx
> isn't religious about this aspect of host names.  It sees
> it as no different from a string of letters; it feeds it to
> gethostbyname(), which returns a usable binary IP address.

In my case, going through a proxy seems to be what breaks it.
With the proxy, I get an error page:

>The requested URL could not be retrieved
>     _____________________________________________________________________
>
>   While trying to retrieve the URL: [1]http://2418215520.wa-k20.net/lynx/
>
>   The following error was encountered:
>     * DNS name lookup failure
>
>   The system returned:
>    DNS Domain '2418215520.wa-k20.net' is invalid: Host not found
>    (authoritative).
>
>   This means that:
>    The specified host does not exist or its address can't be found.
>     _____________________________________________________________________
>
>
>    Generated by squid/address@hidden

Note the appended ".wa-k20.net".  Bypass the proxy, and it
works fine.

-- 
Michael Warner          "You're cute when you're stupid"
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