[8720] in Athena Bugs
vax 7.3P: "hostinfo" won't lookup names that don't have IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ron Newman rnewman@bbn.com)
Fri Dec 6 13:33:50 1991
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 91 13:33:39 EST
From: Ron Newman rnewman@bbn.com <rnewman@Athena.MIT.EDU>
System name: e40-008-5
Type and version: CVAXSTAR 7.3P (1 update(s) to same version)
Display type: SM
What were you trying to do?
Lookup the MX record for the domain name "tufts.edu".
This name has no IP address associated with it, but does have
an MX address. I tried both with and without the -m command line
option.
What's wrong:
It said: No address for 'tufts.edu'.
What should have happened:
It should have said that the MX address is 130.64.1.41.
(That's what "nslookup" says)
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
According to JIK, "hostinfo" will only look up MX records for
sites that have IP addresses. He agrees that this is probably a bug.
