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From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: HP WIDGETS AVAILABLE NOW
Summary: network woes
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Date: 21 Sep 88 14:43:12 GMT
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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?
-=-
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