[4245] in Athena Bugs
6.4R: error messages from `finger' on host lookup errors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Thu Feb 15 21:38:14 1990
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 90 21:37:41 -0500
From: Ken Raeburn <Raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
% f kenner@acf2.ultra.nyu.edu
unknown host: acf2.ultra.nyu.edu
%
This error message doesn't distinguish between "no such host" and "I
couldn't reach a nameserver." Something like "no such host" for an
authoritative negative answer would be more helpful. (I happen to
know that this is such a failure, but the message wouldn't be helpful
if I didn't.)
-- Ken
