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From: Kenneth W Cochran <kwc@world.std.com>
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To: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Strange localhost NS look attempts
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>From allbery@ece.cmu.edu  Tue Apr  3 10:04:20 2001
>Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 10:04:03 -0400
>From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>
>To: Kenneth W Cochran <kwc@world.std.com>, Dan Larsson <dl@tyfon.net>
>cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
>Subject: Re: Strange localhost NS look attempts
>
>On Tuesday, April 03, 2001 09:55:53 AM -0400, Kenneth W Cochran
><kwc@world.std.com> wrote:
>+-----
>| So, why should that be an invalid connection attempt?
>| Looks to me like localhost should always be allowed to
>| connect to itself... (?)
>+--->8
>
>If we ignore the LOG_IN_VAIN red herring, what's really happening here is

Are you saying LOG_IN_VAIN is not such a Good Thing?

>that you are running a nameserver on localhost which is returning some kind
>of response after the querant (netscape?) has timed out (and therefore

Yes, I'll say Netscape.  Seems, for example, to work just
fine with Lynx (http://localhost in both cases).

>closed its query socket).  So the real question is, why is the nameserver
>timing out?

Agreed, I think it has more to do with the nameserver.  But
maybe Yet Another Netscape Problem?  Any idea(s) as to a fix?
Or should I Just Live With It?

Thanks!

-kc

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