DNS on an S27

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1 total messages Started by Richard Warner Tue, 07 Apr 1992 22:07

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Author: Richard Warner
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 22:07

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We are running two Sequent machines - an S27 (Dynix 3.0.17.9) and a
B21000 (Dynix 3.0.4) [this box is on long-term loan to us].  The S27
is our main mail server and print server for historical reasons.  The
B21000 is used primarily for instructional purposes.  

Our campus recently installed a Sun 4/490 server which also provides
us with a name-server.  We would like to like to use this Sun for
name resolution and add SMTP transport for our mail.  Now comes the
tricky part.  We see this as a 2 part problem - get the name resolver
working and then tackle sendmail.  We got the name services working
on all of our Sun's,  went to the S27, proceeded to add the proper
files (defaultrouter and resolv.conf) and everything worked fine - except
that the B21000 no longer 'sees' the S27.  Nada.  We cannot telnet
between the two boxes, we cannot 'ping' from one to the other (they are
in the same room and are adjacent nodes on our ethernet).  Worse,
the B21000 can no longer spool print jobs over to the printers on the
S27.  Ouch!  

Needless to say, we backed off for now.  Anyone have any suggestions on
how we can fix this quandry?   We need for the two boxes to communicate,
but we really, really, really want to add SMTP transport.  I would
very much appreciate any suggestions.

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