Re: Can't resolve address......
Amanda Cheung (amanda@dkbfp.com.hk)
Tue, 26 Nov 1996 08:47:46 +0000
On Nov 22, 8:00am, Al Byers wrote:
> Subject: Re: Can't resolve address......
> Amanda Cheung (HK) wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I have installed perl5.003 and libwww-perl5.04 successfully on my sparc20.
When
> > I tried to run a very simple perl,
> >
> > perl -MLWP::Simple -e 'getprint "http://www.sn.no/libwww-perl/"'
> >
> > it failed by saying
> >
> > -------------------------------------------
> > <HTML>
> > <HEAD>
> > <TITLE>
> > An Error Occurred
> > </TITLE>
> > </HEAD>
> > <BODY>
> > <H1>An Error Occurred</h1>
> > 500 - Can't resolv address for www.sn.no
> > </BODY>
> > </HTML>
> > -------------------------------------------
> ...
>
> I think we had a similar problem on our DEC Alpha, OSF/1 3.2 and we
> fixed by adding "bind" to the "host" line in the /etc/svc.conf file, as
> in:
>
> hosts=local,yp,bind
>
I tried this but didn't work ! It works perfectly fine with lynx even without
this file. Any ideas ? Thanks!
Amanda
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