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From: bunda@cs.utexas.edu (John Bunda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: RT's and TCP.  HELP!!! (long-ish :-)
Summary: Check samples in TCP/IP directory
Message-ID: <5068@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 22 Mar 89 14:10:42 GMT
References: <8949@netnews.upenn.edu>
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <8949@netnews.upenn.edu>, barron@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Daniel P. Barron) writes:

>    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.  
...
>    An explanation would be nice, but even nicer would be a copy of somebody's
>    working named.* files, just to look at.

Look in /usr/lpp/tcpip/samples, where you'll find examples of what these
name database files should look like.  There is also (or there was in 2.2)
a shell script to convert an /etc/hosts format file to a name database.
You'll also need to define a resolv.conf file.  See the TCP/IP book
for setting up "domain name service".

> 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?

Numbers should work fine.  I suspect other problems are causing your
hostname resolver to not work properly.

> 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?

I suspect you are running into problems with telnet eating control chars.
There are several ways around this - one is to use rlogin, the other
is to use stty to disable the normal xon/xoff handshaking but I forget
the exact details of how to do this.

-John






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