Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.cmu-tek
Subject: RE: Hopefully simple questions from a new user
From: Mighty Firebreather <dragon@nscvax.princeton.edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 09:04:07 EDT
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	Bill Weissborn <weissborn@dfwdsr.sinet.slb.com> writes:
>
>I have just installed CMU-TEK on my Vax-cluster.  Our current configuration
>is a 9000-210, 20 vaxstations (VMS 5.5) and 4 sun workstations (running either
>Sun OS 4.1.1 to 4.0.3).  The local lan is ethernet and the Vaxen communicate
>to other Vaxen via a WAN.  I have no direct IP connection, ie, I can receive
>mail but cannot telnet or ftp to another IP node.
>
>I installed CMU-TEK so that we could ftp & telnet to the local Suns.  It works
>but with a couple of annoyances(sp?).
>
>1) on the VAX, I can telnet or ftp but I must use the numerical address of the
>   sun workstation that I want to talk to.  What did I set up wrong, if
>anything?
>

	CMU-TEK needs either a domain name server or a hosts file in order
to translate names to numeric addresses.  In order to use a name server,
NAMRES.CONFIG must specify the name and address of one or more servers.
It looks like this:

;
; NAMRES.CONFIG
;
; Description:
;
;       Define domain server context of system
;
; Syntax:
;
;	DOMAIN_SERVER:domain:servername:address:port
;
; Princeton servers.
Domain_Server:.:IDUNNO.PRINCETON.EDU:128.112.129.131:53
Domain_Server:.:PRINCETON.EDU:128.112.128.1:53
Domain_Server:.:PHOENIX.PRINCETON.EDU:128.112.128.43:53
; Root servers.
Domain_Server:.:AOS.BRL.MIL.:128.63.4.82:53		; Aberdeen MD
Domain_Server:.:AOS.BRL.MIL.:192.5.25.82:53
Domain_Server:.:KAVA.NISC.SRI.COM.:192.33.33.24:53	; Menlo Park, CA
Domain_Server:.:C.NYSER.NET.:192.33.4.12:53		; New York, NY
Domain_Server:.:TERP.UMD.EDU.:128.8.10.90:53		; College Park, MD
Domain_Server:.:NS.NASA.GOV.:128.102.16.10:53		; Moffet Field, CA
Domain_Server:.:NS.NASA.GOV.:192.52.195.10:53
Domain_Server:.:NS.NIC.DDN.MIL.:192.112.36.4:53		; Chantilly, VA

	Lacking a domain server that you can contact, you must use a hosts
file, SYS$LIBRARY:HOSTS.TXT.  It looks like this:
;++
;
; CMU/Tek-IP (or maybe someone elses?) Host Table
;
;	Formatted according to Internet RFC 952:
;
; HOST:<ip_addr>:<domain_name_list>:<hardware>:<OS>:<WKS>
;
; Only the first three fields matter (HOST:<ip_addr>:<domain_name_list>:).
; Comment lines start with a semi-colon (;)
;
;	EXAMPLES:
;
HOST:128.2.232.69:NO1.ANDREW.CMU.EDU,NO1:VS3100:VMS:TCP/FTP:
;
;--

	You must, of course, add an entry for each of your machines.

	It's hard to tell what you did wrong without know what you did and
didn't do. :-)

>2) In my kit, there were some DOMAIN-A.BCK savesets.  Were they used by the
>TEKIP066 kit or do I need to install them seperately?
>

	Damned if I know.


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