client installation problem solved

Alistair Veitch, University of Waikato, New Zealand acv at waikato.ac.nz
Wed Dec 5 15:33:24 AEST 1990


Thanks to you folks in Netland, I've solved my problems with booting the remote
clients. Especial thanks to:
	lau at kings.wharton.upenn.edu (Yan K. Lau)
	jcp at decuac.dec.com (J.C. Patilla)
	sudha at cs.uiuc.edu (Sudhakar Yerramareddy)
	gengenba at forwiss.uni-passau.de (Michael GenGenbach)
	duncanl at cs.unc.edu (Lynne Cohen Duncan)
	steven at uicadd.csl.uiuc.edu (Steven Parkes)

The problem was knocked almost on the head by the latter two. The etc/hosts
file on the server was set up wrong - for some reason it had the line
127.0.0.1 localhost zeus
in it. I'm certain I didn't put the zeus there - I added other lines but didn't
touch the one already there... And of course, it was *too* obvious to notice!
The consequence was of course that the client though the IP of the server was
127.0.0.1, and so spent it's time talking to itself :. Hang...

Thanks for the response, and next time I'll try to check the obvious properly!

--
Alistair Veitch			Systems Programmer/Analyst
Internet: acv at waikato.ac.nz	Phone: +64 71 562889 ext. 8341
SNAIL: Computer Services, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand



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