Hello Mike!

Monday September 16 1996, Mike Walker writes to John Mudge:

 MW>> Trying to connect to news server news.mindlink.net ....
 MW>> dcache_search: searching for news.mindlink.net.
 MW>> dfile_search: searching for news.mindlink.net.

 JM>> This part is looking in your DOMAIN.TXT file, first in memory and
 JM>> then the actual file for an address resolution.  You can speed this
 JM>> up by using the IP address of your news server instead of the
 JM>> domain name.  Everything is operating properly.  Their IP address
 JM>> is 204.174.16.2

 MW> Now this is the part thats the problem. At this point the program just
 MW> hangs. I'll try putting the ip address in and see if that helps. The ip is
 MW> correct in the domain.txt file. I take it that I would change "nntp
 MW> addserver news.mindlink.net 600" to "nntp addserver 204.174.16.2 600" in
 MW> my .net file to avoid the lookup.

Right.  This is more a diagnostic step.  You could also try the ftp manually
and see what happens.  At the point where it "hangs" is the machine locked up?
Try pressing the scroll-lock key to see if the light comes on...try pressing
the escape key.  If this takes you back to the net> prompt, try the asystat
command and take a look at the memory info.  Check also for 'hw over' and 'sw
over' values greater than 0.

                  John Mudge [jmudge@ptmudge.westsound.com]