On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, anand-bhatt wrote:
> How does one do DNS lookups in Analog?
> I did everything the help file suggests and yet my output looks like...
>
> 6502: 100%: [unresolved numerical addresses]
>
> I have a dnsfile.txt, and Analog updates the numerical IP addresses every time I run
>it.
> I don't run Analog from the server, but the machine is connected to the net while I
>run Analog.
>
> P.S.,
> my analog.cnf file has the following entries
> DOMAINSFILE domains.tab
> DNSFILE dnsfile.txt
> DNS write
> DNSGOODHOURS 200
>
Yes, it looks as if you did everything right. Does the DNSFILE contain
translations of the IP addresses, or just stars? Just stars means it
couldn't translate them for some reason. You can confirm this by turning
debugging on while running.
So why couldn't it resolve them? Possibly none of them have names -- many
addresses don't. This is not the most likely explanation, but you could test
it by making a logfile with a known resolvable addresses in (try 18.69.0.38,
for example). Otherwise, your computer's DNS may not be configured
correctly. Can you resolve the same addresses by any other means? -- you
may have utilities called "host" or "nslookup" to try and do this. If not,
there is no hope of analog being able to succeed.
--
Stephen Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/
Statistical Laboratory, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1SB, England
"Ad infinitum, if not ad nauseam." (Interviewee, BBC Radio 4)
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