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- From: billh@cadence.com (Bill Hassell)
- Subject: Re: Getting Sony workstation to use nameserver properly.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.000204.21845@Cadence.COM>
- Keywords: sony nameserver
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- Organization: Cadence Design Systems
- References: <9234418.11305@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:02:04 GMT
- Lines: 51
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- In article <9234418.11305@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> ajd@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Ashley Dreier) writes:
- >
- >Hi there. I'm running a small network of SGIs, xterminals and
- >a lone Sony workstation. The sony doesn't do very much, so I'm
- >running a nameserver from it. This appears to work fine
- >from all of the other machines. Here comes the catch though.....
- >
- >The sony is unable to use the nameserver at all (even though it's
- >running it). It is also unable to use it's /etc/hosts file properly.
- >Here's a quick scenario of what happens :-
- >
- >The /etc/hosts file is of the standard format
- >i.e. IP-number full.host.address.name alias
- >(e.g. 144.110.176.13 tre.vis.citri.edu.au tre -- this is the machine in
- >question).
- >If I try to 'ping' another machine, (or any other command to reach
- >another machine) I get varying results, depending on the name I choose.
- >e.g.
- >ping 144.110.176.13 - okay
- >ping tre.vis.citri.edu.au - fail
- > ping: unknown host tre.vis.citri.edu.au
- >ping tre - okay
- >
- >This is the same for any machine names in the hosts file. Whether they
- >are in the same network or not (I've tried various domains).
- >If I do the same from the other machines, it all works okay.
- >I can even use partial names (due to the domain searches in the
- >resolv.conf files), such as tre.vis.
- >
- >The file /etc/resolv.conf exists, and orders the nameservers
- >as usual, also listing 'hostresorder bind local', etc.
- >
- >Can anyone please shed some light on this for me, either things to
- >try or a solution??? It would be very much appreciated, as it's had
- >me licked for quite a while now (and a few other people too).
- >
- >Oh, and by the way, the model is NWS-1850 and is running News-OS 3.3
- >It's running version 4.8.3 of BIND.
- >
- >
- >Thanks,
- >
- > Ash (ajd@cs.mu.oz.au)
- >
- >Either mail or postings are find.
- >
- >
-
- Have you tried running mkhosts in order to rehash the /etc/hosts file?
- billh@cadence.com
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