Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!rutgers!uwvax!oddjob!kaon!gargoyle.uchicago.edu!thos From: thos@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (Tom Barron) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Domain TCP/IP problem Message-ID: <528@kaon.uchicago.edu> Date: 9 Aug 88 21:10:57 GMT Sender: root@kaon.uchicago.edu Reply-To: thos@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (Tom Barron) Organization: U. Chicago Computer Science Dept. Lines: 45 ---------- I just set up a 4000 with TCP/IP 3.1 on top of SR 9.7 4000. I also put up DOMAIN IX TCP/IP 3.1 on top of Domain IX 9.5. The Domain IX TCP/IP works as expected but I have a problem resolving host names with the Domain TCP/IP product. I called 1-800-2APOLLO about the problem: the fellow who dealt with the call ended up sending mail to the development people to check on it. While I await a reply from Apollo I thought I'd check the net .... I just ftp'ed in a fresh copy of hosts.txt from SRI-NIC.ARPA (using the Domain-IX product, for reasons that will become clear shortly), put it in /sys/tcp/hostmap, and ran makehost.sh without any errors. When I issue host sri-nic.arpa (or the corresponding command for any other host beyond our campus network) I get host: bad host: host not found The corresponding telnet and ftp commands yield, respectively, telnet: Unknown host specifier: "sri-nic-arpa" Unknown host name: 'sri-nic.arpa' The corresponding commands for the short nickname forms of local campus hosts work fine, e.g. telnet gargoyle but using the fully qualified, official name fails. Specifically, host gargoyle.uchicago.edu yields host: bad host: network not found. while telnet and ftp yield the same sort of message as before. Incidentally, host 26.0.0.73 yields the hostcap entry for sri-nic.arpa just fine. The problem appears to have something to do with the use Domain TCP/IP makes of the network entries in the host tables. The command host gargoyle.u-chicago works and the NIC tables list net 128.135 as u-chicago. I can't get any corresponding nonlocal commands, e.g. :-} host sri-nic.arpanet host sri-nic.milnet to work. Does anyone know what's going on here? - Tom Barron thos@gargoyle.uchicago.edu