[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

Here is the host file contents. It is the same on the VMS system and
the iMac.

10.1.1.1 cougar Cougar COUGAR
10.1.1.3 imacg5 Imacg5 IMACG5
10.1.1.10 printserver Printserver PRINTSERVER

Of course localhost is also defined in both files as 127.0.0.0

Bill