acv@waikato.ac.nz (Alistair Veitch, University of Waikato, New Zealand) (12/05/90)
Thanks to you folks in Netland, I've solved my problems with booting the remote clients. Especial thanks to: lau@kings.wharton.upenn.edu (Yan K. Lau) jcp@decuac.dec.com (J.C. Patilla) sudha@cs.uiuc.edu (Sudhakar Yerramareddy) gengenba@forwiss.uni-passau.de (Michael GenGenbach) duncanl@cs.unc.edu (Lynne Cohen Duncan) steven@uicadd.csl.uiuc.edu (Steven Parkes) The problem was knocked almost on the head by the latter two. The etc/hosts file on the server was set up wrong - for some reason it had the line 127.0.0.1 localhost zeus in it. I'm certain I didn't put the zeus there - I added other lines but didn't touch the one already there... And of course, it was *too* obvious to notice! The consequence was of course that the client though the IP of the server was 127.0.0.1, and so spent it's time talking to itself :. Hang... Thanks for the response, and next time I'll try to check the obvious properly! -- Alistair Veitch Systems Programmer/Analyst Internet: acv@waikato.ac.nz Phone: +64 71 562889 ext. 8341 SNAIL: Computer Services, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
mike@raven.uss.tek.com (Mike Ewan) (12/06/90)
|> The problem was knocked almost on the head by the latter two. The etc/hosts |> file on the server was set up wrong - for some reason it had the line |> 127.0.0.1 localhost zeus This happens during the OS install. When the install program asks for your host name it sticks it in /etc/hosts as above, and when you run netsetup it doesn't fix it. Arrgh. Mike -- Michael Ewan (503)627-6468 Internet: mike@raven.USS.TEK.COM Unix Systems Support UUCP: ...!tektronix!puffin!raven!mike Tektronix, Inc. Compuserve: 73747,2304 "Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches/sec."--J. Hart
frank@croton.enet.dec.com (Frank Wortner) (12/11/90)
> |> 127.0.0.1 localhost zeus > > This happens during the OS install. When the install program asks for your > host name it sticks it in /etc/hosts as above, and when you run netsetup > it doesn't fix it. Arrgh. It depends ... "netsetup install" will do a complete setup, including fixing the above. "netsetup" will just add names to /etc/hosts. Frank