[ale] resolver problems

[James P. Kinney III]

In the /etc/hosts file on tachyon, the order of the machine name should
be:
172.16.255.99 print.home.edu print

The reverse order will cause it to only be know by "print"

When you enter print.home.edu, it is not resolvable by /etc/hosts so it
looks at the vpn nameserver, which, of course, gags on it.

On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 21:19, Geoffrey wrote:
> Okay, I need some education here folks.  I have two machines on the same 
> network here at home.  One machine has two nics, one to permit me to 
> print to the home printer, another connected to the corporate vpn.  The 
> print machine is named 'print'.  The other machine is named tachyon.  In 
> tachyon's /etc/host file I have:
> 
> 172.16.255.99 print print.home.edu
> 
> tachyon's fq name is tachyon.home.edu
> 
> /etc/resolv.conf on tachyon contains single entry to nameserver for my 
> corporate vpn.
> 
> I can ping 'print' from tachyon by using either the fq name or short 
> name (print print.home.edu)
> 
> cups uses http type approach to access printers.  I can access print 
> from tachyon with:
> 
> http://print/
> 
> but can not access it with http://print.home.edu/  it returns an error 
> from the proxy server on the vpn, which it should not be going to at all 
> for that request, so far as I can see.
> 
> Another machine on the same subnet can access 'print' either way.
> 
> /etc/host.conf contains:
> 
> order host,bind
> 
> So what gives?
> 
> -- 
> Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net
> 
> I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
> to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?
> 
> 
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