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From: acv@waikato.ac.nz (Alistair Veitch, University of Waikato, New Zealand)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: client installation problem solved
Message-ID: <2434.275d2f64@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 5 Dec 90 04:33:24 GMT
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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Thanks to you folks in Netland, I've solved my problems with booting the remote
clients. Especial thanks to:
	lau@kings.wharton.upenn.edu (Yan K. Lau)
	jcp@decuac.dec.com (J.C. Patilla)
	sudha@cs.uiuc.edu (Sudhakar Yerramareddy)
	gengenba@forwiss.uni-passau.de (Michael GenGenbach)
	duncanl@cs.unc.edu (Lynne Cohen Duncan)
	steven@uicadd.csl.uiuc.edu (Steven Parkes)

The problem was knocked almost on the head by the latter two. The etc/hosts
file on the server was set up wrong - for some reason it had the line
127.0.0.1 localhost zeus
in it. I'm certain I didn't put the zeus there - I added other lines but didn't
touch the one already there... And of course, it was *too* obvious to notice!
The consequence was of course that the client though the IP of the server was
127.0.0.1, and so spent it's time talking to itself :. Hang...

Thanks for the response, and next time I'll try to check the obvious properly!

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Alistair Veitch			Systems Programmer/Analyst
Internet: acv@waikato.ac.nz	Phone: +64 71 562889 ext. 8341
SNAIL: Computer Services, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand