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From: a2mp@PSUORADM.CC.PDX.EDU (Michael Perrone)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Hosts file PROBLEM here too!
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Date: 2 May 91 22:01:12 GMT
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> We have site license for MacTCP 1.0.1, we use it primarily with NCSA Telnet
> and Eudora. I edited the Hosts file as per instructions (I think), but it
> doesn't seem to have any effect whatsoever. Here are the details:
> 
> Mac SE, System 6.0.4, 3Com Ethernet card
> MacTCP 1.0.1 set to static address, nameserver filled in (and works),
> protected with AdminTCP.
> BYU/NCSA Telnet 2.3.2
> 
> Hosts file (relevant fragments):
> 
> rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu A 138.87.1.2
> ilstu.edu NS rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu
> 
> foo.acs.ilstu.edu A 138.87.131.1  ; a real machine, not in the nameserver
> risc CNAME rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ; trying to create an alias
> 
> Telnet to foo.acs.ilstu.edu and to risc results in "host not in Hosts file
> or a nameserver". I must be missing something simple, or this machine is
> completely screwed up... Please help!    Thanks - Eric.
> -- 
> Eric Behr, Illinois State University, Mathematics Department
> Internet: ejbehr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu    Bitnet: ebehr@ilstu
> 


I am having exactly the same problem. I have edited the Hosts file as
per the instructions in the MacTCP doc's, and nothing works for me
either-

Mac SE/30
NCSA Telnet 2.4b10
tried under both system 7.0f2 and 6.0.7

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psuoradm		CNAME	psuoradm.cc.pdx.edu
psuoradm.cc.pdx.edu	A	131.252.129.53
psuorvm			CNAME	psuorvm.cc.pdx.edu
ibm			CNAME	psuorvm.cc.pdx.edu
psuorvm.cc.pdx.edu	A	131.252.129.50
psuorpn			CNAME	psuorpn.cc.pdx.edu
gould			CNAME	psuorpn.cc.pdx.edu
psuorpn.cc.pdx.edu	A	131.252.129.51
psulib.cc.pdx.edu	A	131.252.129.52
eecs			CNAME	eecs.cs.pdx.edu
eecs.cs.pdx.edu		A	131.252.20.118  
jove.cs.pdx.edu		A	131.252.21.12

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Michael Perrone                      PSU Computing Services
a2mp@psuoradm.cc.pdx.edu             (503) 725-3112


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