Re: can't connect with windows cvs

[Larry Jones]

Stephen Morley writes:
> 
> While that would appear to be obvious that I was using the wrong IP address
> it turns out to not be the case. If I use the IP address the connection
> fails, if I use the host name it works. I just went back and check it. Using
> the same command except for the use of the IP address or the name and I was
> careful to check the ip address and even pinged it to check what the name
> was resolving to. Looks like a bug in the parser. 

Nope -- it works fine on Unix, and that's using the same parser. 
Perhaps NT's gethostbyname() doesn't handle IP addresses correctly?
What's the exact text of the error message you get?

-Larry Jones

He doesn't complain, but his self-righteousness sure gets on my nerves.
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