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From: urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: NCSA Telnet 2.3, K* 7.0: How to get at the name server?
Message-ID: <765@smurf.ira.uka.de>
Date: 18 Aug 89 19:19:33 GMT
Reply-To: urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de (Matthias Urlichs)
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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We are trying to use NCSA Telnet 2.3 (MacTCP) via a Fastpath 4 running K-Star
7.0, to access our Unix hosts.

The problem is, we can't seem to use the host names. The "hosts" file is set
up according to the example from Apple, the name server config in MacTCP looks
like this:
ira.uka.de	129.13.10.90	o
.		129.13.10.90

(The first entry is the default)
Neither opening a connection to iraun1 (which is the name server) or
iraun1.ira.uka.de (which is the same machine) does anything; the connection
hangs with "is being looked up". Opening a connection to 129.13.10.90 works
fine.

Anyone know what's going on? (The anem server tested fine, when queried from
another Unix host, with both names.)