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From: minshall@kinetics.UUCP (Greg Minshall)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: nameserver with SU Mac/IP /FP 4/ K-STAR/ Atalkad
Message-ID: <760@kinetics.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jun 89 17:58:58 GMT
References: <un890603174425>
Organization: Kinetics, Inc., Walnut Creek, CA
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From article <un890603174425>, by mpeter@ethz.UUCP:
>>From mpeter Sat Jun  3 17:44:19 MET 1989 remote from ethz
...
> but when I use the host names, the connection fails with the message
> "Name Server not responding".
> 
> Where is the name server ? I specified the SUN running atalkad in both, the customization
> of SU Mac/IP and in the K-STAR's name server field.

The name server is supposed to be a machine running the so-called "Domain
Name Server" protocols.  If your Sun doesn't support this (and nothing else
in your network does), you probably need to fall back to a static list of
hosts in your Macintosh.

I don't know what Telnet/FTP package you are using.  NCSA Telnet has a method
of listing the names of hosts (along with their IP addresses) in the custom
file.  HostAccess/TCPort uses a file (with the same format as /etc/hosts
on your sun) in the system folder (called "TCPort hosts").

Hope this helps.

Greg Minshall