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From: stacy@sobeco.com (s.millions)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: Problem with rlogin when resolv.conf is setup
Keywords: rlogin, bind
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Date: 7 Feb 91 02:06:32 GMT
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In <185@vega.iii.com> danny@vega.iii.com (danny) writes:

>Question :
>does rlogin skip /etc/host.equiv and .rhosts file when the resolv.conf
>is setup?  

No, rlogin/rsh/rcp etc. still check these files.

>          Is there something I need to setup as the primary server to
>make rlogin work without asking for a passwd?

I can't say for sure, but it sounds like a problem with your .rhosts
and /etc/hosts.equiv. When you are using a DNS, the resolver returns
the fully cononicalized domain name. There is an easy way to check.
If you type 'ping host' and get
	PING host.domain.name (XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX):...
then you must use host.domain.name in your hosts.equiv or .rhosts. If
your DNS is not stable, and host is in your /etc/hosts table, than it
is possible for either host or host.domain.name to be returned by the
resolver. In this case you should include both names in the hosts.equiv
and .rhosts files.

>I am currenty running MIPS os4.51 and my primary server is running Ultrix 4.0

In UMIPS 4.5 you have a file called /etc/vis.conf in which you can define
what is used to resolve a hostname, if you restrict it to just the DNS,
then you don't need to worry about using both naming conventions.

A word of warning: the resolver on UMIPS 4.anything does not handle
multiple domains or multiple nameservers. To get around the multiple
namesever problem, we opted to run named on all hosts forwarding to
our main nameservers. Then the resolv.conf looks like:
	domain domain.name
	nameserver 127.1
I haven't come up with a solution to the multiple domains yet.

Hope this helps.

-stacy

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