lengge@chx400.switch.ch (Thomas Lenggenhager) (01/07/91)
In article <1991Jan4.220228.4505@athena.mit.edu> hbh@athena.mit.edu (Heidi Hammel) writes: >I just installed A/UX 2.0 on my Mac IIci. I have been running NCSA >Telnet 2.3 on my Mac via an ethertalk card and thinwire connections. >But it won't run under A/UX. Says it's not 32-bit clean. >I tried relogging in under 24-bit (just like it says in the TFM for >running non-32-bit-clean programs). No luck. > >It _acts_ like its working, but just can't locate the machine. In the >control planel under MacTCP, when I look at the IP addresses and defaults >WITH A/UX, they are all O's. WITHOUT A/UX, they are set to the correct >IP address and defaults. I cannot change them under A/UX - says they >are protected. > >Any clues? Something silly? I'm an experienced unix _user_ (read: _not_ >a system hacker) but very new to the Mac world. Thanks for any help. >-- >------ Heidi B. Hammel (hbh@athena.mit.edu) MIT 54-316 >-- Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences The first problem you describe is just the warning documented somewhere in the manual. You have to change a bit with the ResEdit to get it to disappear. The second problem I experienced with TCP/Connect II from InterCon as well. It seems to me that the MacTCP under A/UX 2.0 doesn't support the DNS name to address lookup. If you try to connect via the IP number it works perfectly. Connecting by domain name always fails! Question to Apple: Why isn't this documented in the manual? Or is it just a bug and not a feature? =============================================================================== Thomas Lenggenhager, SWITCH, ETH-Zentrum, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland INET: lenggenhager@switch.ch | Tel: +41-1-261 8178 UUCP: ..!mcsun!chx400!lenggenhager | Fax: +41-1-261 8133 X.400: S=lenggenhager;O=switch;P=switch;A=arcom;C=CH -- =============================================================================== Thomas Lenggenhager, SWITCH, ETH-Zentrum, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland INET: lenggenhager@switch.ch | Tel: +41-1-261 8178 UUCP: ..!mcsun!chx400!lenggenhager | Fax: +41-1-261 8133
urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) (01/07/91)
In comp.unix.aux, article <1991Jan6.213329.8182@chx400.switch.ch>,
lengge@chx400.switch.ch (Thomas Lenggenhager) writes:
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< It seems to me that the MacTCP under A/UX 2.0 doesn't support the DNS name to
< address lookup. If you try to connect via the IP number it works perfectly.
< Connecting by domain name always fails!
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< Question to Apple:
< Why isn't this documented in the manual? Or is it just a bug and not a
< feature?
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It's a bug. More specifically, it's a bug in NCSA Telnet.
NCSA Telnet tries to do its own name lookup by opening a port and talking
to a "real" name server out there somewhere.
Unfortunately, this clashes with the A/UX system, which has its own UNIXish
name server/resolver code (which MacTCP does use).
Any code that uses MacTCPs built-in name lookup does work.
(Keep in mind that the MacTCP included in A/UX is a special version.)
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