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Re: (ASCEND) DNS resolution bug
In reply to 12 May message from Jesse Martinez <jmartine@ecis.com>:
>Not true. I have tested this from MAC and Win95 machines. With both static DNS as well as
>server assigned DNS in the profiles. Some IRC's and webs give unable to resolve hosts. If
>I logon thru the max to a shell on my Linux systems, Those same sites work no problem.
this is a bug in the mac and win95 resolvers where if the truncation bit is set they
fail.. same as bug in ascend but not caused by the ascend.. this is why for msn.com
I did a fix in bind to work around this problem for them...
osr2 win95 fixes it...
I think newer mac s/w does also
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