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From: root@texbell.sbc.com (Greg Hackney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: TCP/IP
Message-ID: <489@texbell.sbc.com>
Date: 24 Sep 90 16:13:38 GMT
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In article <90266.153616TEMNGT23@ysub.ysu.edu> TEMNGT23@ysub.ysu.edu
(Lou Anschuetz) writes:

>OK, I have WIN TCP/IP installed and functioning on my tower 32/700.
>I can telnet in and out successfully using source routing.  What I
>need to know how to do is to tell the NCR to use the name server
>located on another machine

I don't think that NCR's WIN-TCP package supports nameservice yet. The
INTRO(3&4) networking manual pages refer to the RESOLVER(3&4) manual pages,
which are not in the manual. There is a /usr/etc/named file, but I
couldn't find any supportive documentation.

The "bind" (Berkeley Internet Name Domain server) source code is 
available for free via FTP on uunet.uu.net. It can be made to compile
and run on NCR's WIN TCP/IP, and I am using it. However it appears
that most of NCR's networking utilities, i.e. rlogin, ftp, telent, are
not linked with the resolver libraries, therefore will only work
with /etc/host entries. I'm not if NCR's sendmail was built to use
nameservice, as I use Smail3 instead.

> and how to tell the NCR to use a default
> router address for anything not in /etc/hosts....

If you have a router that is an internet gateway, you can put a
line in /etc/rc1.d/S86win that says:

/usr/etc/route add default router_name 0

If you are just talking about email routing, normally your nameserver
feature will determine addresses sites not in /etc/hosts. If you
don't have nameservice, then the normal thing to do is to configure
/usr/lib/sendmail.cf to forward SMTP mail to an email gateway machine.
--
Greg