I want to thank the following for their comments and suggestions:
Trevor Osatchuk
Gergen, Peter
Nemholt, Jesper Frank
Bryan Dunlap
Oisin McGuinness
david.ross
Its not an issue with the /etc/hosts files, or nameserver. I suspect
something in the route tables, but I havent figured it out yet. If I
do, I will post a final summary.
For a temporary workaround, I just placed oakfp in the necessary .rhosts/.shosts
files, and the export file.
Bugs Brouillard Unix system administrator
Humboldt State Univ. Information Technology Services
Arcata, Calif.
email bb1_at_humboldt.edu
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My problem:
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Bugs wrote:
->
->Hello,
-> I manage 8 alpha's. A mixture of 4.0d, and 5.1a.
->On one machine, "oak" I can connect to all but one called
->"polaris", which is a 4.0d and is the campus nameserver.
->oak is 5.1a. when I connect to all other alpha's from oak,
->they all see oak as "oak", but when I connect to polaris, it
->sees oak as oakfp, which is an aliases IP also on oak.
->The connections only fail on the "r" commands such as rsh,
->rcp, stuff like that because in .rhost files, oak is permitted
->but not oakfp. It also cant mount polaris's nfs disk (for tripwire)
->
->The question: why is polaris seeing oak as oakfp instead of oak
->like all the other alphas.
->Clue: The network folks took the campus to full dhcp (excluding
->the alpha's). polaris is still on the backbone, but all other
->alphas are on a different router.
->
->Does this help?
->(the 137.150.148.X are the alpha's)
->
->Polaris:
->tu1: flags=c63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST,SIMPLEX>
-> inet 137.150.17.5 netmask fffff000 broadcast 137.150.31.255 ipmtu 1500
->
->
->Routing tables
->Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
->Netmasks:
->Inet 255.255.240.0
->
->Route Tree for Protocol Family 2:
->default 137.150.17.1 UGS 2 4133436 tu1
->127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 1 128 lo0
->137.150.16/20 137.150.17.5 U 1 4707632 tu1
->137.150.146.30 137.150.16.9 UGHD 0 214 tu1
->137.150.146.40 137.150.16.9 UGHD 0 1266 tu1
->137.150.148.10 137.150.16.9 UGHD 2 1382283 tu1
->137.150.148.16 137.150.16.9 UGHS 0 28 tu1
->137.150.148.17 137.150.16.9 UGHD 0 10282 tu1
->137.150.148.18 137.150.16.9 UGHD 4 93187 tu1
->137.150.148.19 137.150.16.9 UGHD 0 35518 tu1
->137.150.148.25 137.150.16.9 UGHD 0 1537 tu1
->137.150.159.254 137.150.16.9 UGHD 0 100 tu1
->137.150.186.23 137.150.16.9 UGHD 0 245 tu1
->137.150.186.24 137.150.16.9 UGHD 0 166 tu1
->===============================================================
->
->Oak:
->(oak's IP is 137.150.148.16)
->
->tu1: flags=c63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST,SIMPLEX>
-> inet 137.150.145.23 netmask fffff000 broadcast 137.150.159.255 ipmtu 1500
-> inet 137.150.148.16 netmask fffff000 broadcast 137.150.159.255 ipmtu 1500
-> inet 137.150.148.16 netmask fffff000 broadcast 137.150.159.255 ipmtu 1500
->
->
->
->Routing tables
->Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
->
->Route Tree for Protocol Family 26:
->
->Route Tree for Protocol Family 2:
->default 137.150.145.10 UGS 2 450299 tu1
->127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UHL 5 3783 lo0
->137.150.144/20 137.150.148.16 U 20 7950356 tu1
->137.150.145.23 137.150.145.23 UGHS 0 0 tu1
->137.150.148.16 137.150.148.16 UHL 0 548 tu1
->
->
->
->Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
->
->
->Bugs Brouillard Unix system administrator
->Humboldt State Univ. Information Technology Services
->Arcata, Calif.
->
->email bb1_at_humboldt.edu
->
->
->
Received on Mon Jun 10 2002 - 22:13:49 NZST