G'day again List,

Ok guys am really going to show my ignorance about a few things here but
on the path to enlightenment here goes....

In this site we have a couple of Solaris Servers, the HP3000 and an NT
server ( that loves to bounce itself any time of the day - off topic
with that comment ). DNS is setup on a Solaris server with all servers
configured, including the HP3000. All looked good. Thing to note perhaps
is that we have no permanent Internet connection yet but we do have the
registered domain ( held at our ISP ) that you see on the mail message,
and this is the domain I have used internally.

Today I have had a contractor in to install Unispool on the HP3000. It
would that while Unispool has been configured and now works the HP3000
now does not appear as one of my DNS clients. The contractor then told
me he had to alter my hosts.net.sys file from emu.mudgee.nsw.gov.au to
hp3000.mudgee.shire as this was the node name set up in nmmgr. Only
after he made the change did Unispool begin to operate from a client PC.

I asked if we could alter the node name in nmmgr to
emu.mudgee.nsw.gov.au and then alter the hosts file again but his
comment was

1. Changing the node name was not something that is as simple as what i
suggested...i really do not know any more than that comment

2. Even if he did change it the HP3000 would only take three classes (
is that the right term ) so we would finish with emu.mudgee.nsw and not
the complete domain.

I am a little confused about all this as I do want Unispool ( i've paid
for the bloody product now anyway ) but i want my DNS client back to as
I am still working on the sendmail project that some of you may remember
helping me with. I hope i have been clear as it is not all too clear to
me.

And by the way I really don't see why everyone laughs at my servers...i
think emu, wombat, tapain, dingo are ok names...! i've heard worse.

cheers

shane.

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Shane Devereaux
Manager Information Systems
Mudgee Shire Council
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