Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!HWCAE.CFSAT.HONEYWELL.COM!rand From: rand@HWCAE.CFSAT.HONEYWELL.COM (Douglas K. Rand) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Task Broker Message-ID: <9011240218.AA20834@hwcae.cfsat.honeywell.com> Date: 24 Nov 90 02:18:12 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 34 We have been trying out Task Broker from HP/Apollo. It looks great, but we can't get it to run. There seems to be a problem with Internet host names. Task Broker won't run if your fully qualified Internet host name is longer than 15 characters. (From the second field of /etc/hosts.) Well, I work for Honeywell, Commercial Flight Systems, Air Transport Division. So that makes us: .cfsat.honeywell.com and that is a lot longer than 15 characters. We can't change the names back to the short un-qualified host names (as suggested by HP/Apollo) cause that will break our mailers, and a lot else too. Is anybody else out there running Task Broker? Do you have this problem? HP/Apollo says that there will not be a patch for this. It *should* (should they say!) be fixed in the next release. But, there is no date set for the next release. Help! Did HP/Apollo just decide that nobody should have host names longer than 15 characters? (How did they test it at Apollo? .apollo.hp.com leaves them a 1 character host.) Or is there some Internet rule on this? Can it be so difficult to fix? PS: HP Task Broker Version 1.01 6/26/90 19:03:42 Domain/OS kernel(7), revision 10.3, August 22, 1990 3:32:49 pm -- Douglas Keenan Rand Honeywell -- Air Transport Systems Division Phone: +1 602 869 2814 US Snail: P.O. Box 21111 Phoenix AZ 85036 Internet: @cim-vax.honeywell.com:rand@hwcae.cfsat.honeywell.com UUCP: ...!uunet!hpfce!apciphx!hwcae!rand