Thanks to Oisin McGuinness for this little tidbit.
Basically there were different /etc/hosts files on each machine
and things got screwy because the hosts file is also distributed
via NIS. Removing the /etc/hosts file fixed the problem as did
distributing the same one to each machine.
Jeff
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I've seen this kind of problem when one machine has this kind of entry
in the /etc/hosts file:
ip-address namea nameb
and the other has this entry (for the same machine)
ip-address nameb namea
where one of the names is THE hostname, and the other is an alias.
Of course, if you are running NIS or Bind, there are more lookup ambiguities possible!
Received on Tue Sep 01 1998 - 16:30:26 NZST