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Re: Another VA question

From Chris Hughes <news13@noonehere.co.uk>
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.misc
Subject Re: Another VA question
Date 2024-12-21 09:34 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <30eba7d25b.chris@mytardis> (permalink)
References <5bd27bee69newslists@npost.uk>

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          Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk> wrote:

> Hi from Australia on our yearly jaunt.

> I'm posting here because I posted on the VA mailing list about a spurious
> and very strange file that had appeared in the partition alongside my VA
> directory. I've dealt with that now by quarantining it then removing it.
> Nothing has fallen over.

> Virtual Acorn Adjust 4.39 Windows 10 Acer netbook. W10.

> For some reason I cannot fathom, Netsurf reads HTML file OK but suddenly
> cannot get out to the wide world. Error - Could not resolve hostname.

Remember, The VA side has nothing to do with your connection to the 
internet, it is all under the control of your W10 configuration.  So the 
W10 side could not resolve the hostname, might just have been a temporary 
glitch with DNS.

> I've never had to do anything in Configure.Network. As stated in the VA
> manual, it just worked out of the box. What could have changed?
> Netfetch and Pluto work OK so they can communicate with Orpheus correctly.


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-- 
Chris Hughes

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