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The Question is: Configuring UCX I am configuring UCX for the first time on a new system. I want to make this a local network that does not connect to the Internet. I made mistakes in setting up the network, I guess and am having trouble getting localhost to be defined as tssa 100.0.0.57. I edited ucx$hosts.dat, but that seems to mess things up. Just to get things started, how can I get the host to recognize itself in telnet, and how can I add other hosts and addresses? What services do I need to enable? How can I start the process over to start "fresh"? Thanks, Mark The Answer is : The Wizard strongly encourages acquiring and reading through the TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS (UCX) installation and configuration documentation. The core of the UCX configuration process uses the UCX$CONFIG tool. And this tool can be re-executed as neccessary, to reset various portions of the configuration. However, prior to re-running UCX$CONFIG (or TCPIP$CONFIG on TCP/IP Services V5.0 and later) in this particular case, you will likely need to explicitly delete all of the UCX$*.DAT (or TCPIP$*.DAT) files in SYS$SYSTEM:, as the UCX$HOSTS.DAT (TCPIP$HOSTS.DAT) file was likely corrupted by the attempt to edit it, and as you wish to start over from scratch. It may also be possible to delete just the upper version of UCX$HOSTS.DAT (TCPIP$HOSTS.DAT) -- the corrupted version -- and reverting to the original version. Rather than depending on direct user editing of configuration files, OpenVMS generally provides user interfaces and/or APIs for this task. In the general case of UCX and the UCX$HOSTS.DAT (TCPIP$HOSTS.DAT) data file, modifying the contents of the file is usually performed via the issuance of SET HOST commands within the UCX (TCPIP) utility, or via UCX$CONFIG (TCPIP$CONFIG), which calls the UCX (TCPIP) utility for you.
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