Quoth Dave C. on Fri, Oct 29, 1999: > On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> > And, BTW, write a function in C that will find out whether or not
> > you have a permanent Net connection and proper hostname, eh?
>
> Heck I can write a bash script that can do that..
How? (By proper hostname, I meant the one that can be traced
from the root DNS servers). And don't forget that trying to
nslookup exim.org won't work -- if the line is down, I want the
function / script to return the "have permanent connection"
value. If there usually is Net connection. And checking
hostnames won't work either -- you never know when some weird TLD
like ".nom" is defined.
Vadik.
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