karl@gimms835.gsfc.nasa.gov (Karl A. Anderson) (10/02/90)
I want to set my 800 and 300s up to get IP addresses from a name server. Are name-resolver versions of the standard ARPA/Berkeley programs (telnet, ftp, SMTP, etc.) available for HP-UX 7.0? Maybe just an MX sendmail? TIA. -- Karl A. Anderson | Internet: karl@forest.gsfc.nasa.gov NASA/GSFC code 923 (STX) | voice: (301) 286-3815 Greenbelt, MD 20771 | %include <std_disclaimer>
jdunlap@milton.u.washington.edu (John Dunlap) (10/02/90)
>I want to set my 800 and 300s up to get IP addresses from a name server.
On my HP-9000/375 I installed /etc/resolv.conf with contents:
domain apl.washington.edu
nameserver 128.95.120.1
nameserver 128.95.96.120
nameserver 128.95.96.121
which allows telnet, ftp, rlogin, etc to work fine.
Check with nslookup, set type=any, set recurse.
John Dunlap
dunlap@apl.washington.edu
karl@forest.gsfc.nasa.gov (karl anderson ) (10/03/90)
Several people have told me how to enable name resolution on HP 9000s, by simply creating the /etc/resolv.conf file. It works just fine - thanks to all who responded to my query. -- Karl A. Anderson | Internet: karl@forest.gsfc.nasa.gov NASA/GSFC code 923 (STX) | voice: (301) 286-3815 Greenbelt, MD 20771 | %include <std_disclaimer>
cricket@hpcc01.HP.COM (Cricket Liu) (10/04/90)
I want to set my 800 and 300s up to get IP addresses from a name server. Are name-resolver versions of the standard ARPA/Berkeley programs (telnet, ftp, SMTP, etc.) available for HP-UX 7.0? Maybe just an MX sendmail? TIA. Actually, the versions of telnet, ftp, etc., that are shipped with HP-UX 7.0 are compiled with resolver versions of gethostby*(). If you've got a nameserver running for your local domain, all you need to do is point /etc/resolv.conf at it using the "nameserver" directive, like so (also see man 4 resolver): nameserver 128.183.10.134 If you want your search list to be set correctly and you don't set your hostname to a full domain name, you should also use the "domain" directive (also man 4 resolver) in /etc/resolv.conf: domain gsfc.nasa.gov sendmail is trickier - your sendmail.cf file may need to include the appropriate canonicalization operators, etc., to work with nameservice. But I think that the stock sendmail.cf shipped with 7.0 (/etc/newconfig/sendmail.cf) does that. Last, if you want to *run* a nameserver locally, I'd suggest having a look at the "Installing and Maintaining BIND" chapter in the _Installing and Administering ARPA Services_ manual. cricket hostmaster@hp.com
dme@doc.ic.ac.uk (Dave Edmondson) (10/04/90)
In article <1670002@hpcc01.HP.COM> cricket@hpcc01.HP.COM (Cricket Liu) writes:
cricket> If you want your search list to be set correctly and you don't set your
cricket> hostname to a full domain name, you should also use the "domain" directive
cricket> (also man 4 resolver) in /etc/resolv.conf:
cricket> domain gsfc.nasa.gov
is it possible to have clusters, _and_ have all of the hosts with fully
qualified domain names ? i've spent about 10 minutes thinking about
doing this, and decided that it wouldn't work.
cricket> cricket
dave.
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tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) (10/06/90)
In article <DME.90Oct4064950@mr-uppity.doc.ic.ac.uk> dme@doc.ic.ac.uk (Dave Edmondson) writes:
is it possible to have clusters, _and_ have all of the hosts with fully
qualified domain names ? i've spent about 10 minutes thinking about
doing this, and decided that it wouldn't work.
Sure, we have a mixed cluster with an 845 as server and s300 clients.
All have their fqdn as `hostname`. Their cnode and uname name is just
the first part.
However, adding a cluster client when you already have it in
/etc/hosts and/or in the DNS (if, for example, you are converting the
client to diskless, or moving it from one server to another) is a real
pain: You have to comment out the entry from /etc/hosts and kill named
before you start sam. If you are adding a cluster client called
'john', and john.your.dom.ain already is in /etc/hosts and/or the DNS,
sam won't let you assign john's own IP address to it. Sam doesn't
understand that it's the same machine you are talking about...
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Tor Lillqvist,
working, but not speaking, for the Technical Research Centre of Finland
shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni) (10/06/90)
Dave Edmondson writes: > is it possible to have clusters, _and_ have all of the hosts with fully > qualified domain names ? i've spent about 10 minutes thinking about > doing this, and decided that it wouldn't work. Not at all, Dave. I am posting this from a cluster server that is configured to use a domain name server. My clusterconf file still looks like the plain old: ############: # Clustercast address--DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE ############:1:hpclscu:r:1:1 ############:2:hpcll04:c:1:0 etc... The *only* thing I had to do to make my cluster use the domain name server was to create an /etc/resolv.conf file (and of course, some files like /usr/lib/sendmail.fc have to be re-frozen, but that's easy: just reboot the cluster once). P.S. Don't let the "originating host name" on this note fool you (that is inserted by the "notes" program) - the actual hostname for this machine is "hpclscu.cup.hp.com". ----- Shankar Unni E-Mail: Hewlett-Packard California Language Lab. Internet: shankar@hpda.cup.hp.com Phone : (408) 447-5797 UUCP: ...!hplabs!hpda!shankar DISCLAIMER: This response does not represent the official position of, or statement by, the Hewlett-Packard Company. The above data is provided for informational purposes only. It is supplied without warranty of any kind.