[Info-vax] WASD demo issues

Simon Clubley clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Sun Jan 30 18:26:04 EST 2022


On 2022-01-28, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
> On 2022-01-28, issinoho <iain at issinoho.com> wrote:
>>
>> If the "axpbox.home" alias is *not* defined then we have the problem. Following this, I actually found an entry in the VSI TCP/IP manual which states that when hosts have a mixed-case then a uniform case alias should/must be defined. So it seems like a known situation.
>
> So instead of spending the effort to fix the problem, they instead
> documented the current behaviour as the expected behaviour. :-)
>

Just for the record, that should say "HPE instead documented the current
behaviour". I'm aware that VSI inherited the stack from HPE.

> I hope VSI are more proactive about fixing problems such as this and
> don't just leave them until they are forced to fix them. :-)
>

Simon.

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