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The Question is: I have an environment with a number of Open VMS systems and a common DNS (based on MS Windows). I'm using DECnet over TCP/IP. Some of the systems has problems when establishing links. Set Host takes quite a time and the Remote Port Info contains the calle rs IP-address instead of the node name. If I include the source node in the targets local TCP/IP host table it works fine. There is no difference between the local definition and the DNS. But most of the nodes works fine without any local definitions. I h ave compared working and not working nodes in all aspects but not found any significant differences. Any suggestions? Best regards, Kjell Carlsson. The Answer is : You will have to probe your network for activity, using ping or other similar tools and examine network activity logs (as available). Check the IP addresses for the DNS server(s) and DNS client configuration on each host, obviously. You might also configure the TCP/IP Services DNS server as a test, to try to determine the details and the extent of the name resolution problem. Please see the discussions of back translations here in Ask The Wizard. (2530), (3793), and (4493) among them. This appears to be a related problem, where the host is unable to translate the incoming IP host address -- or the DNS (BIND) server is not responding to the request, or the request or the response is timing out or otherwise unavailable. Also please see (7443), for a discussion of slow translations from Windows DNS servers -- there is no resolution in that topic, however. Please remember to check the software revision of your Microsoft Windows platform and DNS server, and please ensure you have current versions of IP and DECnet installed, and current ECOs for IP, DECnet, and OpenVMS.
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