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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.orst.edu!gateway.sequent.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: libc.so.3.0 ????? Where the hell can i get this library? Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 07:54:15 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 33 Message-ID: <32521FA7.5FBB@www.play-hookey.com> References: <3239C61B.7C84@oliverdesign.com> <3239AE71.2709@www.play-hookey.com> <3239B266.73ED@www.play-hookey.com> <324C7048.283@wsg.net> <52p8hl$hl@newsbr.eunet.fr> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Frederic G. MARAND wrote: > > "David M. Fogarty" <chaos@wsg.net> wrote: > > >Ken Bigelow wrote: > > >> > > please email to > >> > > > >> > > tom@205.179.167.58 > >> > >> I tried to send it both ways as requested, but got a "host unknown" > >> response and my e-mail returned. > > >You can't really e-mail to an ip from most systems as it will try to > >look up the host _name_ 205.179.167.58 which will obviously fail since > >it's not a name.... There are some that will deliver directly to an IP > >if all else fails but unless yours is configured to do so...It's a no > >go. > > There IS a workaround if the host is directly connected: you can send > the message manually using SMTP, for instance with > "telnet 205.179.167.58 smtp" which will connect you to the SMTP > server. You can then send the message manually using SMTP data > transfer. Unwieldy, but I did it a couple of times. It usually works for me if I do it as recipient@[w.x.y.z] -- the brackets make the difference. Maybe I overlooked them that time. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |