cantrell@ee.tamu.edu (Pierce Cantrell) (04/04/91)
In trying to print to a remote printer using lpr (non-Netinfo), the print window stayed open for several mins. with a whirling beachball. In /usr/adm/lpd-err was the following error message: Apr 2 12:31:50 cantrell lpd[1321]: unable to get network name for local machine cantrell We have been experiencing name-server problems for the past couple of days. This error message looks to me like a nameserver query failed trying to find out that the local domain name was tamu.edu. Since NeXT does not run named, I am not sure what is going on here. On my other machines that run named, the local nameserver would be able to resolve its own domain name, and I don't believe I would get this error. There are two configuration questions that might affect this problem that are not clearly spelled out in the Network and Sys Admin book: 1. For a non-Netinfo machine, should the host name set in the local panel be hostname or hostname.domain.edu? I have mine set to hostname without the domain information. (Changing this to hostname.domain.edu will affect sendmail.cf and maybe some other things). 2. For a non-Netinfo machine, should its host name be loaded into the Netinfo database using niload? I did not load mine in, but any normal /etc/hosts file would contain your own host name. Any ideas? -- Pierce Cantrell cantrell@ee.tamu.edu Department of Electrical Engineering Texas A&M University tel: (409) 845-7441 College Station, Texas 77843-3128 fax: (409) 845-6259