[103847] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Problems sending mail from .mumble
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Bonomi)
Tue Apr 15 12:57:21 2008
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:56:28 -0500 (CDT)
From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:07:22 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Duane Wessels <wessels@packet-pushers.com>
> Subject: Re: Problems sending mail from .mumble
>
> FWIW I was able to find one application, the text browser 'links,'
> which accepts either filename or hostnames as its commandline
> argument. From what I can tell its algorithm is something like
> this:
>
> - if tld/extension has two letters --> URL
> - if less than two letters --> File
> - if tld/extension is in list of known gTLDs --> URL
> - else --> File
>
The web browser "Lynx" does something very similar. One addendum to the
above logic is that if the DNS look-up fails, it tries to use the string
as a local file path.
Typo the FQDN in a URL to something that returns NXDOMAIN, and you get an
error message to the effect that lynx 'couldn't access start *FILE* "foo'"
(emphasis added.)
