unknown host

sourceuno · Post by **sourceuno** » Thu May 17, 2001 10:45 pm

After calling the fetch function, I get the following error message from <urlinfo errmsg>:

Unknown host

I'm able to use fetch on another computer on my network. What's causing this error?

Post by **Kai** » Thu May 17, 2001 11:57 pm

By "able to use fetch on another computer" I assume you mean from a different machine being able to <fetch> the same host/URL. The DNS settings for the problem computer may not be correct; eg. it may not have any nameservers set. Try to telnet to port 80 of the URL's host from the problem computer: if it fails with "Host not found" or the like, the problem is with its DNS settings.

sourceuno · Post by **sourceuno** » Fri Jun 01, 2001 8:26 am

I tried to telnet and I don't have a problem finding the host. Is there anything else that might be causing this error?

Post by **Kai** » Fri Jun 01, 2001 10:38 am

Before the <fetch>, try setting <urlcp dnsmode system>. Is this an NT system? What is the complete output of texis -version?

sourceuno · Post by **sourceuno** » Fri Jun 01, 2001 11:56 am

Thanks kai. That seemed to work. What exactly does that command do? Yes it is an NT system, actually Windows 2000. Here's the output of texis -version:

Texis Web Script (Vortex) Copyright (c) 1996-2001 Thunderstone - EPI, Inc.
Commercial Version 3.01.984682785 of Mar 15, 2001 (i686-intel-winnt)

Post by **mark** » Fri Jun 01, 2001 12:03 pm

See http://www.thunderstone.com/site/vortexman/node132.html
and http://thunderstone.master.com/texis/ma ... &q=dnsmode