Atalkad

mpeter@ethz.UUCP (06/03/89)

>From mpeter Sat Jun  3 17:44:19 MET 1989 remote from ethz

I hava some Mac's connected over a FP 4 to a SUN 3, where a
atalkad deamon is running.  Now I got from stanford SU-Mac/IP and Mac/MH,
but there seemes to be a problem. I can do telnet sesions to any host
on the TCP/IP net as long I specify it with the explicit net adress (192.33.98.17, ....)
but when I use the host names, the connection fails with the message
"Name Server not responding".

Where is the name server ? I specified the SUN running atalkad in both, the customization
of SU Mac/IP and in the K-STAR's name server field.

Can anybody give me some ideas of my problem ?

Thanks

Martin Peter
ETH/IKT/BIWI
Zuerich/Swizerland

minshall@kinetics.UUCP (Greg Minshall) (06/07/89)

From article <un890603174425>, by mpeter@ethz.UUCP:
>>From mpeter Sat Jun  3 17:44:19 MET 1989 remote from ethz
...
> but when I use the host names, the connection fails with the message
> "Name Server not responding".
> 
> Where is the name server ? I specified the SUN running atalkad in both, the customization
> of SU Mac/IP and in the K-STAR's name server field.

The name server is supposed to be a machine running the so-called "Domain
Name Server" protocols.  If your Sun doesn't support this (and nothing else
in your network does), you probably need to fall back to a static list of
hosts in your Macintosh.

I don't know what Telnet/FTP package you are using.  NCSA Telnet has a method
of listing the names of hosts (along with their IP addresses) in the custom
file.  HostAccess/TCPort uses a file (with the same format as /etc/hosts
on your sun) in the system folder (called "TCPort hosts").

Hope this helps.

Greg Minshall