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From: barron@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Daniel P. Barron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: RT's and TCP.  HELP!!! (long-ish :-)
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Date: 20 Mar 89 03:05:18 GMT
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Hi Folks!

AAAARRRGGHH!!  I have an RT running AIX 2.2.1 and TCP/IP 2.2.1.  Well, sort
of running it.  Some questions, for any help with which I shall be eternally
grateful.

1) When /etc/rc.tcpip runs at startup I get error messages from the named
   daemon such as:

   Mar 19 21:52:02 rt108 named[92]: zoneref: Masters for secondary zone wharton.upenn.edu unreachable

   rt108 is my hostname and wharton.etc is the network I'm on 128.91.11.xx

   It seems I've simply got the wrong stuff in my /etc/named.* files, but I
   can't for the life of me figure out what *should* be in there.  I've been
   at this for only a few months, but still, I don't think it should be
   *this* difficult to figure out.
   An explanation would be nice, but even nicer would be a copy of somebody's
   working named.* files, just to look at.  It's hard as hell figuring out
   what IBM wants you to put in these files.  I'm trying to hook my RT up
   to the Internet directly.  Funny thing is, it sort of works.  I can telnet
   ftp and (sorta) sendmail.  Still, these errors are frustrating.  Which 
   brings me to the second problem:

2) With TCP/IP v. 2.2 I could do use dotted decimal format, i.e.
   telnet 128.91.11.1, but not nameserving, i.e. telnet wharton.  Now with
   this "updated" version, names work and (get this)  numbers don't!  What
   I would like to do is use remote nameserver on our site, only resorting
   to a local file if there is no entry upstream.  Can I do this?

3) Finally, even when things work and I can telnet to remote hosts, full
   screen stuff (like editors, etc.) doesn't work.  Is this due to not
   running X-windows?  I mean, the stuff works, but the keys are all
   screwed up and don't behave properly even though the thing is supposed 
   to be emulating a VT100.  Is keyboard remapping the answer?  Can I do
   that?

Any help, pointers, *anything* would be appreciated.  IBM doc stinks and 
even though my doc/software version numbers match it's obvious the info
in the doc is *wrong* (i.e. it names files that no longer exist, etc.)

I just don't think it should be *this* hard.

HELP!

adTHANKSvance,

db

p.s. When we got this working at first (ver. 2.1) it took me and *two* 
IBM tech refs *and* a very knowledgeable friend over three days to get
it working.  And this update is a nightmare.  I say again, it shouldn't 
be *this* hard!!!
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