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From: pemurray@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Peter Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Network configuration (hostname) problem
Message-ID: <2371.26f9e1bb@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Date: 21 Sep 90 14:47:38 GMT
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In article <2345.26f7480e@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>, pemurray@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Peter Murray) writes:
> We recently installed a RS/6000 powerserver on our network, and originally
> gave it the name RISCSRV.  Well, a couple of days later, someone came up
> with a better name, APSRISC.  So we changed the name in the BIND tables,
> and used the SMIT interface to change the configuration of TCP/IP.  In
> almost all cases ('rwhod', telnets, ftps, etc) the name is APSRISC.
> However, when telnetting from APSRISC to another machine, the hostname
> (in a 'who' command) shows up as RISCSRV.  Also, in a 'netstat' command
> on the RS/6000, RISCSRV show up again.  

Problem solved.  It turns out that the reverse address maping on our
nameserver was wrong, and when this problem was fixed, everything
turned out ok.  Many thanks to Marc Auslander from IBM for solving
the problem and James Nau for his helpful advice.

Peter
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