Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu!bob From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: HP WIDGETS AVAILABLE NOW Summary: network woes Message-ID: <22188@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 21 Sep 88 14:43:12 GMT References: <100920007@hpcvlx.HP.COM> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science Lines: 28 In article <100920007@hpcvlx.HP.COM> dana@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Dana Laursen) writes: > The non-proprietary release of Hewlett-Packard X Widgets is now > available for anonymous ftp from "hpcvaaz" (15.255.72.15). Could you please put this stuff on expo.lcs.mit.edu, with all the other contrib stuff? I'm having problems making contact with the host you mentioned. When I query hplabs.hp.com (the primary nameserver for hp.com, and that should know about hpcvaaz.hp.com) about hpcvaaz.hp.com, it tells me about two MX records for hpcvaaz, but no A (address) records. When I query hplabs.hp.com about the address 15.255.72.15, it returns the expected reverse-address mapping and tells me that the name associated with that address is hpcvaaz.hp.com. But I still can't get an address record back for the name. Then, when I try to FTP directly to 15.255.72.15, my connections always time out, as if the host were down, or perhaps there are bad routing problems betwixt hither and yon. In short, I'd really appreciate it if you could put this new release on a somewhat better-known system, that would be easier to get to. Thank you! Also, how does this release relate to the stuff in expo:contrib/Xhp? -=- Zippy sez, --Bob If elected, Zippy pledges to each and every American a 55-year-old houseboy...