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- From: philip@cel.cummins.com (Philip D. Pokorny)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
- Subject: Name to addresses
- Message-ID: <9207221624.AA02726@cel.cummins.com>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 16:24:33 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Distribution: world
- Organization: The Internet
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- Shaun Pankau writes:
- > Our university has a class B address (147.26) and a domain
- > (swt.edu), but does not have a master name server. Most of
- > the Internet access from this university is via our VAX cluster
- > (yuk) and we use another university to resolve name requests.
- >
- > I look after a group of apollo nodes, one of which is connected
- > to the campus backbone ethernet. This has enabled us to avoid
- > using the VAX :) We also use the remote name server to resolve
- > names to addresses, but when we try to log into a site that
- > expects us to have a name we get rejected.
- >
- > QUESTION: how do I configure the apollos to have recognizeable
- > names?
- > i.e. I would like to be able to connect to a site without being
- > told that our IP address does not resolve to a name and
- > then get rejected.
-
- First of all, make sure your Apollo ring has a subnet of
- the B address assigned to it and make sure that your University
- is ROUTING it's B subnets and not just BRIDGING. It sounds like
- you have an Apollo Token Ring network with a dual-network 400 or
- other machine. If so, and you can /etc/ping from a Token Ring
- ONLY machine to the outside world (like the VAX) and get
- replies, then everything should be fine.
-
- Next you have two options.
-
- 1. Talk to the "other" university and get them to add your node
- id's (That's TCP/IP addresses and names) to their NAMED name
- server.
-
- 2. Run NAMED on your dual-network Apollo node (perhaps all of
- them?). Set up a sub-domain name (foo.swt.edu) and inverse
- address domain (xxx.26.147.in-addr.arpa). You will need to
- tell that "other" university to add your new domain name and
- addresses to their domain "tree's". If all that goes well, then
- you problem should be solved...
-
- As always, consult local manuals and gurus for more detailed
- information. There is a section in the Managing BSD4.3 System
- Software and Managing SysV System Software manuals on setting up
- named.
-
- Sincerely,
- Philip D. Pokorny
- philip@cel.cummins.com
- :)
-
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