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<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 16, 2011 6:04 AM, "Paul Allen Newell" <<a href="mailto:pnewell@cs.cmu.edu">pnewell@cs.cmu.edu</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> 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>> -- <br>> users mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org">users@lists.fedoraproject.org</a><br>
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