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From: LES@SLACVM.BITNET (Len Sweeney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: elementary problems
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Date: 17 Jan 90 00:11:00 GMT
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> 2. I get an error from the windows server when trying to log in
> after creating a resolv.conf file:
> domain dk
> nameserver 129.142.96.42
> no problem to log in from telnet connected terminal

The News server does a case-sensitive comparison between a list
of allowed hosts ("newshost show") and the node name returned
by your name-server in response in an inverse lookup from your
internet address.  The easy solution is to make the name-server
name match the case the SGI expects.