[X4U] Re: Leopard Issues - Some Responses

Daly Jessup jessup at san.rr.com
Wed Dec 5 04:52:07 PST 2007


At 22 38  -0800 12/4/07, Robert Ameeti wrote:
>At 12:26 AM -0500, 12/5/07, Jon wrote:
>
>>I respectfully request help, but - please - explain why 10.4 still 
>>works and 10.5 hasn't from the first day I installed it. (And I'd 
>>love to see a tech bulletin that could explain it further.)
>
>DNS works like this:

<snip the interesting description>

>In this case, the Verizon DNS server has been configured to not 
>accept any URL that does not have a top level domain as part of the 
>URL and to send back their search page instead of an error. Because 
>you one computer did not get the error result, it was not able to 
>'guess' and resend the request with additional information.

But then why might it work on his Tiger machine and not on his 
Leopard machine. If Verizon were doing it, wouldn't they both fail?

Daly
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