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- From: rmfowler@landru.mtc.ti.com (Rex Fowler)
- Subject: Re: DNS and .rhosts
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.232904.6733@ticipa.pac.sc.ti.com>
- Keywords: DNS rhosts hosts.equivn
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- Organization: Manufacturing Technology Center, Texas Instruments, Dallas
- References: <BzzLGH.IB@well.sf.ca.us>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 23:29:04 GMT
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- It sounds like you don't quite have DNS up and running. Do you have an
- in-addr.arpa domain for reverse address mapping? If not, it isn't
- going to work.
-
-
- In article <BzzLGH.IB@well.sf.ca.us> nlane@well.sf.ca.us (Nathan D. Lane) writes:
- >I finally got DNS up and running (well, sort of...it dies frequently on
- >my AIX system) and am now having trouble with .rhosts and /etc/hosts.equiv.
- >I remember a thread a while back that said you can put in numeric IP
- >addresses. However, I don't want to have to do that. I have tried
- >these formats and none work:
- >
- > hostname
- > hostname username
- > hostname.domain.name
- > hostname.domain.name username
- >
- >In my .rhosts. The files are owned by individual users and have permissions
- >of 600, as info says to do. I CAN make rsh/rlogin/etc. work IF I put
- >in numeric IP addresses. My SE has said that even simple hostnames should
- >work because it should append the default domain to simple host names
- >in that file.
- >
- >The System is a 350 running AIX 3.2 - and an odd number of ptf's, though
- >not up to 3.2.3. Has anyone run into this before?
- >
- >Thank you for any information.
- >
- >-Nathan Lane
- >Trico Title Company, Santa Barbara, CA
- >nlane@well.sf.ca.us
- >
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