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From: fyang@nysnet.nys.GOV (Frank Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: ATT TCP/IP WIN/3B Help Needed !
Keywords: WIN/3B
Message-ID: <538@nysnet.nys.GOV>
Date: 13 Jun 91 19:30:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: nysnet.538
Distribution: usa
Organization: New York State Government, Albany, New York
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Hi NetExperts :

   I'm a novice on TCP/IP. Forgive me if this is an inappropriate posting.
   We installed AT&T TCP/IP Win/3b on our ATT 3B2 machine running on StarLan 
10 NAU. But we have problem when we run netstart to start up the program. The
error messages look like this :

unknown host nysnet
can't determine my internet address/usr/etc/inetinit: config line #13: Failed to
 link netstart failed.

   "nysnet" is our machine's official host name.
   No matter how I changed the networks/hosts files setting or even removed
the /etc/hosts and /etc/networks files, I still got this same message. 
    As I know, inetinit is started by anentry in the file S86win3b when the
netstart program is executed. Inetinit looked for a configuration file
/usr/etc/inetinit.cf. 
   Here is the content of inetinit.cf file :

#
# Stream configuration file for win3b as used by inetinit.
#
# This is the standard stream configuration for a machine configured with a
# single Ethernet interface (ni).
#
#ifname lowerdev        upperdev     hostname
#
en0     /dev/ni/clone0  /dev/arp0       0
en0     /dev/arp        /dev/ip0        0
lo0     /dev/loop       /dev/ip0        me
0       /dev/ip         /dev/udp0       0
0       /dev/ip         /dev/tcp0       0
0       /dev/ip         /dev/raw0       0


   The followings are some other configuration/information :

   - no nameserver or resolver is configured during installation
   - only this machine is installed with ATT 10Base5 NI board and Win/3b
     sofrware ( that means there's only one host running tcp/ip )
   - NI board was tested ok by running the program nitest for Loop-Around test,
     ( so I assumed it's not a H/W's problem ??? )
   - niinfo return :
       Board   Major   State   Physical Address   Subnetwork Type [default]
       -----   -----   -----   ----------------   -------------------------
         0      10      UP       800010030001     ETHERNET [same]
   - hostid : 0


   Any suggestion will be appreciated.
   Thanks !   

                                                       Frank Yang.