Hopefully there are some networking gurus out there who might give me a
hint or two...
Recently my customer replaced some of his servers which were running HPUX
V10.2 with newer servers running HPUX 11.0.
I do not know how the older servers were configured and they are all out
the door now.
There is a script that runs on these servers to direct users to an
application that runs on my AS8200 Tru64 V4.0G systems.
This script performs a "remsh decux <application>" command to fire up
<application> on my systems.
What used to work on the 10.2 systems is now failing from the 11.0 systems
and naturally the customer wants ME to fix it on my end.
Manual tests from the HPUX systems show that a "remsh decux" which should
presumably login and return a command prompt, in fact ask for a password.
I build a hosts.equiv file nightly from our NIS hosts database by selecting
out only those systems which might need to remsh to me.
These entries are (and always have been) in shortname form. The
hosts.equiv file does contain the names of the remote server/clients that
are having the trouble; so that is not the problem.
One workaround seems to be to add the domain name (i.e. fully qualify the
network name) to the hosts.equiv entries. This leads me to think that
there may be a problem with reverse lookup failures. But I don't know
where to go from here... (Prime example of "A little knowledge is a
dangerous thing" maybe).
--CHRis
Chris H. Ruhnke
Systems Management Integration Professional
Mid-Range Technical Services
IBM Global Services
St. Louis, MO
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O'Toole's Law: Murphy is an optimist.
Received on Wed Apr 25 2001 - 13:31:47 NZST