Path: utzoo!dciem!nttor!contact!ross
From: ross@contact.uucp (Ross Ridge)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: TCP/NFS
Message-ID: <1990Nov22.230023.10358@contact.uucp>
Date: 22 Nov 90 23:00:23 GMT
References: <532@comcon.UUCP>
Reply-To: ross@contact.UUCP (Ross Ridge)
Organization: Contact Public Unix BBS. Toronto, Canada.
Lines: 31

In article <532@comcon.UUCP> tim@comcon.UUCP (Tim Brown) writes:
>Platform:
>	ISC2.2 12M RAM
>	TCP, NFS, X(ISC's)
>	WD8003
>
>What it is doing now is pci complains about not being able to find my
>hostname in /etc/hosts (tho it is there) and the lockd complains about
>something similiar to do with the hostname being wrong.  Now the
>really weird part, if I telnet to one of the other hosts (a 6000)
>using the *internet* address it works but if I try to do it using the
>hostname, it hangs.  Ditto for ping.  If I ping another host using the
>hostname it hangs, but using the internet address it works.  I haven't
>a clue here because right after I installed nfs and tested everything
>I sucessfully mounted filesystems from the other host, mailed messages
>and could telnet in both directions.
>
>Hostname returns the correct hostname.

Assuming you are *not* running /etc/named (the BIND daemon), make
sure /etc/resolv.conf has the one line "nonameserver".  With 
IP, NFS, and X all running you'll also likely want to increase NSTREAM
and NQUEUE in the kernel, you can use "netstat -m" to get idea
of your resource usage.

							Ross Ridge
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