Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!mephisto!udel!princeton!njin!giacobbe From: giacobbe@pilot.njin.net (Jeff Giacobbe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: Vax to Sun mail problem Keywords: Vax, Sun Message-ID: Date: 11 Apr 90 14:09:18 GMT Organization: NJ InterCampus Network, New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 45 Here is a problem that has been bugging me for some time. I am really not an expert (by ANY stretch of the imagination) on either VMS or SunOS, but here goes: We have a Vax 6310 running VMS v5.1-1. It is networked (via an Ethernet backbone) to a Sun server (Sun 4/260) running v4.0.3 of SunOS. I can use the mail tool from SunView and successfully send mail to the Vax (actually, to a Decnet node called 'apollo') using the address: giacobbe@apollo The problem is in going from the Vax to the Sun. When I try to reply to the message, or send a new message using the address: username@logos (logos being the Sun machine) the Vax postmaster always sends me a friendly message that it "never heard of host 'logos'" Originally, we thought the problem might have something to do with Vaxmail defaulting to Decnet protocol instead of tcp/ip. The people on the Vax end suggested setting up the Sun so that it would become a Decnet node. I am now running Ki Research Deknet/LAT software on the Sun machine. If I go over to a dec terminal and type 'show nodes all' at the local prompt (I assume this is the Dec LAT prompt) it lists all of the Vax nodes : apollo, gemini, euhler, gauss etc,etc, INCLUDING logos !! I can type 'connect logos' from the local prompt and connect to the Sun machine with no problem. HOWEVER, when I try to send good 'ol Vaxmail to the 'node' logos using the address: logos::username I get an 'unknown node' message!!! ARGHHHH!!!! What's the deal? If logos shows up as 'reachable' Decnet node from the Dec LAT prompt, why the heck is it an 'unkown node' when I try to mail something to it???? Any help would be *greatly* appreciated -- @xxxxx{==============- giacobbe@pilot.njin.net -==============}xxxxx@ | or | | giacobbe@apollo.montclair.edu | | | | "There can be only one..." - (Highlander) | @xxxxx{==============- -==============}xxxxx@