On 15/09/08 21:22, James Vega wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 08:57:59PM +0200, Rhialto wrote:
>> The link you have there,
>> http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/attach/10fa0944a8b643b4/vim-7.2-relativenumber-02.patch?part=2
>> , redirects (now, maybe not before?) to
>> http://vim_dev.googlegroups.com/attach/10fa0944a8b643b4/vim-7.2-relativenumber-02.patch?part=2
>
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 03:00:09PM -0400, Charles Campbell wrote:
>> Let's consider the link under debate:
>>
>> http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/attach/10fa0944a8b643b4/vim-7.2-relativenumber-02.patch?part=2
>>
>> The hostname is "groups.google.com". No underscores there.
>
> Which, as you can see above, Rhialto says redirects to a
> vim_dev.googlegroups.com link. FWIW, Firefox handled the redirect fine
> for me.
Whether or nor vim_dev.googlegroups.com can be resolved may vary from OS
to OS. When I was on Windows, Firefox had no problem resolving
-electra-.deviantart.com which is invalid in a similar way, but with
dashes. On Linux I cannot get it to find the same host by querying the
same DNS server. There is a workaround if you know the dotted-quad or
hex-IPv6 IP address (an ugly workaround but better than none at all); it
consists of adding a line for it in your hosts file (on Linux,
/etc/hosts ; on Windows the file exists too but I'm less sure of where).
The line consists of the appropriate numeric address followed by one or
more tabs and then the symbolic host name. If the numeric address of
that host ever changes you will have to change the line in the hosts
file. In effect, what this workaround is doing is to resolve that
particular host locally rather than by querying an external DNS server
(your hosts file is indeed a "local DNS server", external servers are
only queried when that "local server" gives no answer).
In this case the following line ought to do the job:
209.85.133.137 vim_dev.googlegroups.com
You can add comments in your hosts file (and I recommend that you do):
any line starting with a # character is a comment. It is of course
permitted to have several symbolic names for a single numeric address.
Best regards,
Tony.
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