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Re: setting up new machine to print
From:
John Burke <[log in to unmask]>
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John Burke <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 29 Jan 2002 08:22:39 -0800
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Let me revise what I said below. If you have DNS defined, it overrides
anything in HOSTS.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Burke
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 8:00 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] setting up new machine to print
>
>
> > From: Kim Borgman [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> >
> > I am setting up my new N-class system.  Trying to print to
> my existing
> > printers.
> >
> > Have set up the NPCONFIG file, used the same HOSTS.NET file
> > setup, along
> > with SERVICES.net and INETDCNF.net.  I was not using BOOTPTAB
> > and INETDSEC
> > on the old machine.
> >
> > Added the printers to the system using IOCONFIG.  REbooted
> > the machine.
> > (more than once).
>
> First of all, if you are using IOCONFIG to add network
> printers, you do NOT
> need to reboot the system. The printers are added
> dynamically. This was one
> of the great enhancements to MPE in 5.5 time frame.
>
> >
> > If my printer is defined as an IP address in NPCONFIG, I can
> > print to it, If
> > it uses an 'alis' name, ie something like IILJC1.nws.com, I get the
> > following error:
> >
> > :10:09/56/Output spooler, LDEV #121:  Domain name resolver
> > return status
> > nodename is unknown (HOST_NOT_FOUND).  Printer nodename
> lookup failed.
> > Native Mode Spooler message 9665
> >
> <--- snip --->
> Are you trying to use DNS for name resolution? If so, the
> presence of a
> HOSTS file prevents DNS resolution. There is an enhancement,
> NSSWITCH, that
> enables the use of both and in fact lets you determine which
> is tried first.
> I don't know if this has GR'd yet. If this is the problem
> (you are trying to
> use both HOSTS and DNS) check with the RC about the
> availability of the
> NSSWITCH patch. In the meantime, you can only use either
> HOSTS or DNS, but
> not both.
>
> HTH
>
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