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- From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
- Subject: Re: Rlogin vs telnet puzzler
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.194512.18886@coe.montana.edu>
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- Organization: CS
- References: <1992Dec29.193912.18402@coe.montana.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:45:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.193912.18402@coe.montana.edu> osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes:
- >
- >
- >DS5000/240, Ultrix 4.3.
- >
- >Under what circumstances should a rlogin return 'Host unknown', but
- >telnet "Do the right thing?".
- >
- >A professor here is trying to get to inel for some work.
- >
- >schizo:~ % rlogin inel.gov
- >inel.gov: Host is unreachable
-
- And if I wouldn't put words in to the error messages, transliterating
- unknown into unreachable, I would be a lot better off :).
-
- Egads, this is irritating.
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- Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager (406) 994-4780
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- Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717 osyjm@cs.montana.edu
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