Re: 21.4 hangs in the absence of a net connection
Stephen J. Turnbull writes:
Karl Kleinpaste writes:
>> Those Who Know are wrong,
I agreed at the time and still do. OK ...
I don't know when this will get implemented, though. I personally do
not have time for the near future (2-4 weeks), given a simple
workaround (set DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0).
This probably is acceptable, and appears on the face not to break the
common case where one is running XEmacs on the local computer.
However, consider a small shop, that isn't running DNS locally, but
uses on demand ISDN calling? Imagine in such a shop I log in from my
desktop to a local server. How should I set my DISPLAY to avoid a
nameserver query?
I was in such a shop, where DNS was not run internally, but lookups
that were not satisfied by yellow pages were directed to the
nameserver from our ISP, as in:
hosts: xfn nisplus dns [NOTFOUND=return] files
>>>>> "Michael" == Michael McNamara
<mac(a)verisity.com> writes:
Michael> First citing 'Those Who Know' without references gets my
Michael> hackles up.
Sorry about that. I'll try to avoid obscure sarcasm in the future.
(I'm new at being a "public face of XEmacs.")
Anyway, that's exactly what I got when I bitched about it at the time.
Try Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org> as the person most likely to
have approved the patch. Citing, IIRC, core members of the IPv6 group
at the WIDE project.
See the thread rooted at
http://www.xemacs.org/list-archives/xemacs-beta/200007/msg00348.html
specifically
http://www.xemacs.org/list-archives/xemacs-beta/200007/msg00374.html
Searching "IPv6" at http://www.xemacs.org/list-archives/xemacs-beta/
will get you a couple more threads. Now you have all the references I
do. I don't recall any RFCs being mentioned, but maybe I've just
forgotten.
Michael> In these days of instant access, it would be simple for
Michael> you to look up
I am not an expert on network stuff, nor the standards, and was not
involved in the implementation of IPv6 in XEmacs. It would be simple,
yes, but time-consuming for me personally---I don't know exactly where
to look, and would have to confirm that the reference I gave actually
said what I have cited others as saying.
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