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- From: tom@cse.fau.edu (Tom Horton)
- Subject: NetInfo problem (server thinks it's a clone)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.213450.15027@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>
- Sender: news@cybernet.cse.fau.edu
- Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:34:50 GMT
- Lines: 60
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- I have had a Netinfo problem in which I seem to have reconfigured my server so
- that it thought it was a clone server. I *believe* I have fixed this, but
- since I'm no Netinfo expert I'd like someone to tell me if I've done this
- right!
-
- I'm running NeXTSTEP 2.1 (will do the 3.0 upgrade after resolving this issue).
- I have two NeXTs: sailfish (the domain server I screwed up) and catfish (which
- is served by sailfish). I thought I had backups of /etc/netinfo but.... (Now I
- do and will continue to do so.)
-
- A couple of weekends ago we had a campus-wide IP address reconfiguration. I
- needed to change the gateway IP address, the broadcast mask, etc. Apparently I
- should have physically disconnected my host 'sailfish' from the network before
- doing this, because the next time it booted, I got the error message that it
- couldn't find its parent Netinfo server. (It *is* the Netinfo server for my
- two-machine network, at least it's supposed to be.) I deduced it now thought
- it was a clone server.
-
- After glancing at Chapter 8 in the Network and System Admin. manual that came
- with NeXTSTEP 2.1, I made some educated guesses about how to fix this. In the
- domain I had access to when the machine booted (now /sailfish), I opened the
- subdirectory /machines and removed the 'serves' property from broadcasthost,
- then added a new machine 'sailfish' with the right IP address and the value
- '../network' for the 'serves' property. So now, instead of the two that were
- there, there are now these 3 entries in /sailfish/machines:
-
- name: broadcasthost
- ip_address: 255.255.255.255
-
- name: localhost
- ip_address: 127.0.0.1
- serves: ./local
-
- name: sailfish
- ip_address: 131.91.80.15
- serves: ../network
-
- The machine now boots fine (at least so far) and NetInfo does come up with my
- network as it did before I created this problem. If I open the highest level
- domain, I do find sailfish listed in /machines as follows:
-
- name: sailfish
- ip_address: 131.91.80.15
- serves: sailfish/local ./network
-
- This looks ok to me (I guess).
-
- Could someone confirm that this is what I should have done, or make some other
- suggestions? As I said, I'm not a netinfo expert. My immediate goal was to
- get this fixed (at least temporarily) so I get my classes' final grades
- compiled! Now I want to make sure it's fixed right.
-
- Thanks in advance for any help!
- Tom
-
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- Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Florida Atlantic University
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