Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!shelby!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!kth.se!hemuli.tik.vtt.fi!tml From: tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Name resolution service for HP 9000/HP-UX 7.0 Message-ID: Date: 5 Oct 90 19:21:07 GMT References: <3532@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> <1670002@hpcc01.HP.COM> Sender: news@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland, Laboratory for Information Processing (VTT/TIK) Lines: 21 In-reply-to: dme@doc.ic.ac.uk's message of 4 Oct 90 05:49:50 GMT In article dme@doc.ic.ac.uk (Dave Edmondson) writes: is it possible to have clusters, _and_ have all of the hosts with fully qualified domain names ? i've spent about 10 minutes thinking about doing this, and decided that it wouldn't work. Sure, we have a mixed cluster with an 845 as server and s300 clients. All have their fqdn as `hostname`. Their cnode and uname name is just the first part. However, adding a cluster client when you already have it in /etc/hosts and/or in the DNS (if, for example, you are converting the client to diskless, or moving it from one server to another) is a real pain: You have to comment out the entry from /etc/hosts and kill named before you start sam. If you are adding a cluster client called 'john', and john.your.dom.ain already is in /etc/hosts and/or the DNS, sam won't let you assign john's own IP address to it. Sam doesn't understand that it's the same machine you are talking about... -- Tor Lillqvist, working, but not speaking, for the Technical Research Centre of Finland