Why is Firefox such a beast??

[Beartooth]

On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:41:52 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> Tim wrote:
> 
>> The process of working it out *CAN* be done like this.  I am "gonzales"
>> lookup this to find my IP, I find I am 192.168.1.11.  Okay, now lets
>> lookup 192.168.1.11 (a reverse lookup) to find my FQDN, and I get told
>> that I'm "gonzales.example.com.", and that's the end of that story.
> 
> I think you would have to explain what you mean by "lookup" for this
> explanation to be much use.
> There is no command "lookup" on my system.

	Fwiw, I took "lookup" as a typo for plain English "look up," and 
it made sense. (It may take quite a while to learn properly, but it did 
make sense at that point for him to say, in effect, "Now let's look 
jiggamadiddle up ..."

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