On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Edward Lewis wrote:
> At 23:37 -0700 10/11/06, Stephen Casner wrote:
>
> >connect to 127.0.0.1 on the forwarded port number. I don't know why,
> >but Pine does a DNS lookup on 127.0.0.1. My problems arose when the
>
> Sounds like an application layer implementation defect. The problem
> could be solved by reporting the bug to the developers.
I have now been informed that if I had enclosed the 127.0.0.1 in
square brackets then Pine would not looked it up as a name.
This potential for misinterpretation has probably not been seen as a
problem because on many systems the DNS resolver will recognize the
string as an address rather than a name and not do a forward lookup.
The system on which this problem was observed was Windows-98.
-- Steve
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