Subject: PCPine and name-lookup

From: [email-masked] (Margrete Raaum)
Date: 20 Nov 1995 17:01:24 GMT

We are using PC-Pine 3.91 with PC-NFS 5.1X (which uses DNS lookup)
Each users configuration file (pinerc) is located at the network
disk which is mounted on the PC when the user logs in.
(told to Pine by set pinerc=Drive:\pine\pinerc)
It seems that one out of four installations does not work.
It looks like Pine is having a hard time looking up the server.

While starting it will say something like "getting information on 
mail address" etc ending in: <nameofhost> host not found. Which version
of PC-NFS (5.1 a/b) that is running does not seem to matter.

I moved the local Pine-files from a working installation to a problem-child
(as we have had som CRC-trouble on network installations).
It did not help.

I had my home directory with my pinerc mounted on the %$&"#&#$ PC,
it did not work (even though it works beautifully on my PC).

I made sure all the other services using DNS worked, that all the servers 
were valid, up, and running named.

I _did_ check that imapd was running well on the local host.

What I hate about this is that I cannot seem to find the similarities 
between the installations not working.

Does anyone have any ideas out there?

Margrete