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From: fyang@nysnet.nys.GOV (Frank Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: ATT TCP/IP WIN/3B Help Needed !
Keywords: WIN/3B
Message-ID: <543@nysnet.nys.GOV>
Date: 17 Jun 91 17:05:33 GMT
References: <538@nysnet.nys.GOV> <1991Jun13.232406.21723@ohsu.edu>
Distribution: usa
Organization: New York State Government, Albany, New York
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In article <1991Jun13.232406.21723@ohsu.edu>, kozowski@ohsu.edu (Eric Kozowski) writes:
> In article <538@nysnet.nys.GOV> fyang@nysnet.nys.GOV (Frank Yang) writes:
> >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.
> 
> Add an entry in the /etc/hosts file for nysnet.

I did, but it won't let me do it. Win/3B replied : 

   Name nysnet already exists

  ( I did this from win3bmgmt -> addhost menu. )

At this time, /etc/hosts file only has its original entry :
 
   127.1  me  loopback localhost

Then I directly used vi to add a nysnet entry to /etc/hosts file, I still got
an error message ( can't remember what it was ) from inetinit.

Could anyone help me out of this ?
Thanks !


Frank Yang.