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Re: Try again: IP between Pi <--> klh10 TOPS-20

From Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com>
Newsgroups alt.sys.pdp10
Subject Re: Try again: IP between Pi <--> klh10 TOPS-20
Date 2025-12-30 20:43 -0500
Organization PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> writes:

  [snip]

> Note TOPS-20's resolver has to call out to global DNS and whiff first
> before it consults its local host tables. This is opposite of what
> happens almost everywhere else. The stall might be 30-60 seconds. If the
> hostname is in global DNS this is not problem. Either wait, or point
> TOPS-20 at your own resolver that has your local LAN hosts listed. I
> just wait.

Or you can patch the monitor to reverse the order of search between local
hosts.txt file and DNS.

> AFAIK, TOPS-20 does not like bare IP addresses - you have to
> fill out your hosts table (TOPS20:<system>hosts.txt) if the host is not
> in global DNS. Such is the case if I use my internal LAN name for the
> Linux host (but not its global hostname):

Are you talking about things like

	@telnet 192.168.1.37

TOPS-20 TCP/IP code follows the original syntax for IP addresses, abrogated by
BSD Unix and the rest of the world.  You have to put them in square brackets:

	@telnet [192.168.1.37]

is the correct way to specify an IP address instead of a name.

-- 
Rich Alderson					  news@alderson.users.panix.com
      Audendum est, et veritas investiganda; quam etiamsi non assequamur,
	  omnino tamen proprius, quam nunc sumus, ad eam perveniemus.
									--Galen

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Try again: IP between Pi <--> klh10 TOPS-20 David Todd <HDTodd@gmail.com> - 2025-12-29 18:31 -0500
  Re: Try again: IP between Pi <--> klh10 TOPS-20 jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2025-12-30 12:54 -0500
    Re: Try again: IP between Pi <--> klh10 TOPS-20 Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2025-12-30 20:43 -0500
      Re: Try again: IP between Pi <--> klh10 TOPS-20 jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2025-12-31 12:50 -0500
        Re: Try again: IP between Pi <--> klh10 TOPS-20 David Todd <HDTodd@gmail.com> - 2026-01-01 09:59 -0500
          Re: Try again: IP between Pi <--> klh10 TOPS-20 jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-01-01 11:08 -0500
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                Re: Try again: IP between Pi <--> klh10 TOPS-20 David Todd <HDTodd@gmail.com> - 2026-01-03 07:09 -0500
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                Re: Try again: IP between Pi <--> klh10 TOPS-20 David Todd <HDTodd@gmail.com> - 2026-01-02 22:21 -0500
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                Re: Try again: IP between Pi <--> klh10 TOPS-20 jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-01-04 11:21 -0500
                Re: Try again: IP between Pi <--> klh10 TOPS-20 David Todd <HDTodd@gmail.com> - 2026-01-05 17:52 -0500
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                Re: Try again: IP between Pi <--> klh10 TOPS-20 David Todd <HDTodd@gmail.com> - 2026-01-06 18:12 -0500
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                MM vs. MS/MX [was Re: Try again: IP between Pi <--> klh10 TOPS-20] Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2026-01-07 18:28 -0500
                Re: Try again: IP between Pi <--> klh10 TOPS-20 David Todd <hdtodd@gmail.com> - 2026-01-03 17:07 -0500
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                Re: Try again: IP between Pi <--> klh10 TOPS-20 jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-01-04 16:16 -0500
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