gallo@zeno.fit.edu (Michael A. Gallo) (07/26/90)
Recently, three new hosts were added to our local Ethernet. Whenever I execute rusers on my SPARC machine or other Unix boxes these hosts are listed by the hex value of their IP address rather than their host name. The etc/hosts file is current, the /usr/hosts directory is current, and the yp hosts map is current on all machines on the Ethernet. The machine that is running named (a MicroVAX II running Ultrix/DECnet) has also been updated with the correct information about these new hosts. I can ping them, mail to them, receive mail from them, ftp and telnet to/from them using their host name. The new hosts are Sun machines: one is a 386i, one is a SPARC 1+, and one is a 3/50 diskless client. Oddly enough, when I am logged into the server for the diskless client (or on any of the other diskless clients being served by this server) rusers does display the host name of the new disklesss client. It does not however display the host name of the two other new hosts. What am I overlooking? Where does rusers receive its information? I know that the rwhod gets host information via the gethostname system call, but what about the rusersd? Mike Gallo Florida Institute of Technology Melbourne, FL 32901 407/768-8000 x7551 gallo@zeno.fit.edu