[Info-vax] Update to TCP/IP problem with Alpha VMS 8.4

[vmsmangler at earthlink.net]

On Apr 5, 2:03 pm, Ken Fairfield <ken.fairfi... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, April 5, 2012 1:21:44 PM UTC-7, vmsma... at earthlink.net wrote:
>
> [...BIG SNIP...]
>
> > No router in my configuration. When I ping the printserver it does
> > lookup the ip address (10.1.1.10) but times out whereas the piing to
> > the imacg5 does work using its ip address of 10.1.1.3.
>
> Since this thread doesn't have all the information in it, I can't
> recall which IP address goes with what system or printer.  :-(
>
> The best I can interpret the above is, you ping the printerserver
> by name and ping displays the host name ("printerserver") and it's
> IP address (10.1.1.10) *as configured on the VMS system*.  And
> you get no response.
>
> But ping to the imacg5 displays the imac's host name ("imacg5") and
> it's IP address (10.1.1.3) *as configured on the VMS system*.
>
> What does ping from the imacg5 to the printerserver show for
> the printerserver's IP address?
>
> <Basic troubleshooting here...>
>
>     -Ken

When the imacg5 pings the printserver the ip address it shows is
10.1.1.10.  The hosts files on the VMS system and the iMac G5 are the
same.

Bill