Netscape and DNS error messages (re: w3TROPICOS page)

[Leonard Krishtalka]

       Thanks for the response.  Unfortunately, others have also written me
concerning problems accessing the mobot page.

At 08:06 AM 07/16/1996 -0500, Gundega Korsts wrote:
>Replying to Leonard Krishtalka (Date:    Mon, 15 Jul 1996 17:21:50 -0500)
>    Subject: Re: w3TROPICOS Now Available (fwd)
>    http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/
>
>>       Unfortunately, when I tried a search on the "w3TROPICOS" page, I was
>>informed that Netscape could not locate the "mobot.mobot.org" server, and
>>that this server did not have a DNS entry.
>
>Welcome to the world of Netscape, the company that grew too fast and the
>software that has to run in too many different configurations.
>
>This error message comes up when Netscape and the local configuration
>conflict in any of many ways beyond my understanding. If you try again
>later, it should work, regardless of which valid address Netscape refused to
>recognize. I've sometimes had to reboot several times before the problem
>goes away, and sometimes have had to wait a day -- and this for sites I use
>every day, like the Library of Congress.
>
>Since "local configuration" includes your own microcomputer system files,
>the network, the IP assignments, and the Internet connection server, solving
>these conflicts isn't easy, nor is it under one person's control.
>
>It's really too bad that Netscape can't generate a different error message,
>one admitting that the problem began before the DNS entry could even be
checked.
>
>In short: if you've checked the orthography of the URL and found it not
>lacking, don't necessarily believe Netscape's DNS error messages. Try, try
>again.
>
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>Gundega Korsts                 gkorsts at agronomy.org
>Asst. Editor, Agronomy Journal & Crop Science registrations
>AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AGRONOMY
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>
>

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