Thank you much! -----Original Message----- From: Pete Weiss [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 11:17 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Runmode - Tabless default value for ListServ Lite? At 10:25 11/08/1999 Monday , Tim Burnham wrote: >Hi everybody, > >I have ListServ Lite and it requires the Runmode to be Tableless. For a >default address, I have "SWGATE.LSOFT.COM", but I'm not able to Ping it >successfully so I think its not the correct value I should have to reach the >Lsoft "backbone". An email address very well might NOT be PINGable. A realtime translation is done for the part to the right of the @ e.g., Using a DiG client and doing an MX lookup reveals Query:Mail Exchange (MX):SWGATE.LSOFT.COM SWGATE.LSOFT.COM MX 10 vms.dc.lsoft.com <- this is the Internet host that "handles" the mail for SWGATE vms.dc.lsoft.com A 209.119.1.27 vms.dc.lsoft.com A 209.119.0.2 Complete: SWGATE.LSOFT.COM Query:Address (A):SWGATE.LSOFT.COM Doing an "A" record lookup for SWGATE gives a negative response: Authoritative Answer Server has no data for this query Complete:NO_DATA SWGATE.LSOFT.COM