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Subject: Re: [OT] Linux help.. just a quickie.. [OT]

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:36:19 06/21/04

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On June 21, 2004 at 04:23:53, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>On June 20, 2004 at 16:26:48, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>>here is mine:
>>
>>
>>xboard -xexit -popupExitMessage false -icshelper /usr/local/bin/timestamp
>>-xanimate -geometry +0+0 -ics -zp -autoflag -icshost 65.245.208.34 -fcp "crafty"
>>-size petite -initString "" -xreuse
>
>I'm curious, but why are you using the IP here instead of the name? I remember
>someone mentioning recently that under Linux you have to do that but it didn't
>really make sense to me. But now I see your line here and begin to wonder.. :)
>
>Sargon


At one point, timestamp did not use gethostbyname() and the raw IP was required.
 I don't know whether this has been fixed or not, but I have been using the
above for years and have never tried using a domain name instead.  No idea
whether it will work or not...

Another possibility is that a few years back ICC moved around, and for a while
"chessclub.com" resolved to the wrong IP as Sleator tried to find an ISP with
minimal "lag".  That might be the reason it is in my shell script today...




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