Shane,
This is weird. If Unispool follows the RFCs, it shouldn't care what NMMGR
has in it's host field.
OTOH - if the 3000 is in DNS, it makes life easier to have the DNS host name
in the NMMGR host name, but there is no relation when it comes to DNS
lookups. Any client looking for the 3000 as one domain, will resolve it to
an IP address via DNS (if so configured to look at DNS) - regardless what is
in the NMMGR host field.
You might look at the hosts file on the client, and see if the hostname in
it, does not match DNS. Hosts usually takes prescidence over DNS if
present.
Good Luck,
Joe Geiser
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shane Devereaux [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 06:15
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: DNS and NMMGR
>
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Shane Devereaux
> Manager Information Systems
> Mudgee Shire Council
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> Phone 0263 725888
> Fax 0263 725815
> Email [log in to unmask]
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