[LispM] What does a valid internet address look like?

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   No, still stuck. Most recently I added the remote DNS servers as hosts in
   the namespace with them listed as providing the service, like this:

   HOST GOOGLE-RESOLVER
   SERVICE DOMAIN TCP DOMAIN
   ADDRESS INTERNET 8.8.8.8
   SYSTEM-TYPE UNIX42
   NICKNAME GOOGLE-DNS
   SITE SINGAPORE

   but still no name resolution. Very frustrating; normally the docs are quite
   good, but something is clearly wrong. I've attached the entire namespace
   file here too. Maybe I'm missing something obvious.


Did you read the netio documentation?  I don't have Genera setup up
currently to look.  I do have a vauge recollection that DNS names are
just plain strings, i.e. "abc.com".  Now, one issue might be just that
Google's DNS is not responding, or that Genera is sending garbage.
Can you check that, or use a local BIND instance?

Do nyou have a host that talks telnet somewhere? I'm sure that telnet
accepts some sort of a hostname which you could test.  Many of the
basic stuff like ICMP only take an address.