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On 8/15/2011 11:09 PM, James Hogarth wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 16, 2011 6:04 AM, "Paul Allen
Newell" <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:pnewell@cs.cmu.edu">pnewell@cs.cmu.edu</a>>
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> Greetings<br>
> <br>
> I am trying to figure out how to get communication between
my F14 boxes <br>
> on a local wired LAN. The best test case I can come up with
to prove <br>
> that I don't know what I am doing wrong is telnet.<br>
> <br>
> Each machine has a /etc/hosts looking like (where
<name> is the machine <br>
> name and <other> is any other machine:<br>
> +++<br>
> 127.0.0.1 <name> localhost.localdomain localhost <br>
> <name>.localdomain localhost4<br>
> ::1 <name> localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
<name>.localdomain<br>
> <br>
> 192.168.2.10 <other1>.localdomain <other1><br>
> 192.168.2.11 <other2>.localdomain <other2><br>
> 192.168.2.12 <other3>.localdomain <other3><br>
> +++<br>
> <br>
> For the other machines, its name is removed in the
192.168.10.x list and <br>
> 192.168.2.13 <name>.localdomain <name> is added<br>
> <br>
> Each machines has a /etc/sysconfig/network of:<br>
> +++<br>
> NETWORKING=yes<br>
> HOSTNAME=<name>.localdomain<br>
> NTPSERVERARGS=iburst<br>
> +++<br>
> <br>
> I didn't see any reference to <name> or
<otherX> in <br>
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0, so I am not
including it ... <br>
> if there should be something, I'd love to know! I can't
think of any <br>
> other place for <otherX> or
<otherX>.localdomain, but that's out of <br>
> ignorance as I haven't encountered this sort of problem
before.<br>
> <br>
> The splash screen for all machines is
<name>.localdomain. The command <br>
> hostname returns <name>.localdomain.<br>
> <br>
> Ping works great between all of the machines for both
<otherX> and <br>
> <otherX>.localdomain, lists the 192.168.10.x address
like a happy camper <br>
> should<br>
> <br>
> But a telnet <otherX> 25 or telnet
<otherX>.localdomain 25 fails.<br>
> <br>
> I can't tell if I need to add information about the other
machines <br>
> somewhere else on <name> or if they really are known
but something is <br>
> blocking it.<br>
> <br>
> I also can't use mail/mailx between the machines. I noticed
that <br>
> mail/mailx always resolves <otherX> to
<otherX>.localdomain (and sending <br>
> to self is resolved to <name>.localdomain), so I
changed network to use <br>
> the localdomain suffix and added it in /etc/hosts before
the instance of <br>
> <other>. Neither telnet or mail/mailx worked with
just <name>, so I am <br>
> pretty certain that I didn't break anything by changing
<name> to <br>
> <name>.localdomain.<br>
> <br>
> Some machines were already using hostname of
<name>.localdomain and my <br>
> records aren't good enough to know how I specified the name
of the <br>
> machine when I installed F14 (it never was an issue as
everything worked <br>
> until I tested mail/mailx and telnet so I never documented
exactly how I <br>
> should set machine name on install).<br>
> <br>
> It seems that the telnet problem is a simpler one than the
mail/mailx <br>
> and if I can at least get telnet working, then I am closer
to getting <br>
> mail/mailx working.<br>
> <br>
> Any suggestions?<br>
> Thanks in advance,<br>
> Paul<br>
> <br>
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