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What is it?... dig

On Jun 15, 3:49 pm, William F Hammond <hamm...@csc.albany.edu> wrote:
> thesak <don.sak...@gmail.com> writes:
> > Asking this question is difficult because it's not clear what isn't
> > clear! Anyway, from fencepost.gnu.org attempting to run gnus didn't
> > work. It might have something to do with the server. How do you select
> > a server? At this point there's no .newsrc file.
>
> Use "dig" to look for a host named "news" in the domain of
> fencepost.gnu.org.
>
> The domain seems to be "gnu.org".