El Krbaccha typed (on Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 09:49:01PM +0100):
| On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 17:15:00 GMT, bv@wjv.com (Bill Vermillion) wrote:
|
| >In article <atorq09jgbq03m1beiu7a8fk7ov0ejfjvn@4ax.com>,
| >El Krbaccha <krba@HotPOP.com> wrote:
| >>In sco (3.2v4.2) unix I have:
| >>/etc/hosts
| >
| >># @(#)hosts 1.2 Lachman System V STREAMS TCP source
| >># SCCS IDENTIFICATION
| >>127.0.0.1 localhost
| >>223.252.254.1 scosysv scosysv.default.com
| >>223.252.254.118 pc019 pc019.default.com
| >>223.252.254.109 pc010 Jura PC-NFS24A04767
| >>223.252.254.1 host1 host1.default.com
| >>223.252.254.201 host0 host0.default.com
| >>223.252.254.218 doc doc.default.com
| >
| >>Now I want to add new addresses, so append
| >
| >>192.160.2.76 my my.default.com
| >
| >>close the host file... and what next?
| >
| >That should be it. What problems are you having.
|
| Obviously, there is some problem, isn't it?
| (or I'm just bore...and want to write something (killing English and
| myself with it))
|
| >What has always struck me as odd is that SCO default
| >to IP alias fully-qualified-name, while the man page
| >say it is to be IP FQDN alias - as the rest of the world does.
|
|
| Tell me, you saw the beginning of this message
| ">>In sco (3.2v4.2) unix I have:"?
|
| >>How to -hm- "(re)compile", rebuild, setup, configure... you know what
| >>I'm trying to say.
| >
| >You don't have to.
|
| I think that I have to.

NO, you do not.

| Because if I put on 98, Me, Xp, 2K... in Local Network -> Properties
| ...-> TCP/IP .... IP address which is on Unix (etc/host (and somwhere
| else?!)) stuff works.
|
| BUT if I put new one in TCP/IP on xp, and the SAME (Bill) in etc/hosts
| from the unix side (story) - stuff DO NOT works.

Stuff? What stuff? What does not work? Which command did you type and
how did it not work? What error message did you get?

| MENSA conclusion - something missing!
|
| >>(tried with mkhost, but w/o success, when I want to approuch to the
| >>unix server from another computer (win xp) where I put the new
| >>(192.160.2.76) addrress under properties at Local Network, then start
| >>telnet...nada, zilch, zero, nothing).
| >
| >>So, can someone tell me step-by-step how to cofigure, add new
| >>addresses or point me where to find GOOD enough description?
| >
| >Just what problems are you having. If you are trying to resolve
| >the /etc/hosts from another machine that's not going to work.
|
| How come that it works with older address (xp -> unix)
|
| >You could set up DNS on your SCO machine.
|
| HOW?
| (">>So, can someone tell me step-by-step how to cofigure")
|
| As I saw, you do not read the whole message anyway. N'est pas?
| Here we talking about Open Server SCO unix Release 3.2v4.2.
| This is a pretty oldie guy.
|
|
| (why the older ">>223.252.254.118 pc019 pc019.default.com" address
| works?)
|
|
| >Having the far machines address in the /etc/hosts file on
| >the SCO system will help with telnet, ssh, etc., as you
| >won't experience long delays.
| >
| >You DO have to have /etc/resolv.conf on the SCO machine
| >setup with resorder local bind in order for the SCO
| >machine to use the /etc/hosts file first.
|
| No, I have not anywhere resolv.conf (and with old addresses
| works...hm!)
|
| >Bill
|
| Thank you Bill,
|
| (says Uma... )
|

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JP