[Info-vax] Alpha vms Tcpip questions

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2012-08-04 01:47:39 +0000, badger007 said:

> I am working on alphavm but having port problems with it and i am tired 
> of problems.

OpenVMS might disappoint you there, then.  Some OpenVMS configurations 
and tools can get pretty gnarly, and emulators tend to be some of the 
tougher configurations.

> I really dont understand option 2 on the main menu of the uxc on the alpha ..

Well, this is really a generic IP question, and is a question typical 
of a server system.  Most (all?) servers ask for this information 
during a set-up, too.

> it makes you post a domain.

Yep.  Servers have host names and domain names.

> I dont have a local domain

Well, yes, you do.  Sure, you do!  Congratulations, you're now the 
proud "owner" of the .badger top-level domain (TLD)!   Free!!!!!

Yes, you now have the domain lab.badger, and the host name vms.lab.badger!

This is great!!!!  You have a domain!!!!  Free!!!!! 
Congratulations!!!!!!!!!  Isn't this KEWL?!?!  Sure it is.

But seriously, so long as you don't use a top-level domain (.COM, .NET, 
.ORG, .US, .UK, or the couple-hundred existing other top-level domains 
(country codes, .museum, .arpa, and some others), then you can do 
pretty much what you want here.  On your own private NAT'd network, 
that is.

And in this case, .badger is not a current top-level domain, so you can 
have lab.badger and house.badger and hosts such as evil.empire.badger 
and vms.lab.badger, or whatever underneath the .badger TLD.  Easy, yes? 
 There you go, you even now grok a little bit more about how DNS works, 
too.

In reality, you will want to register a domain for yourself.  That's 
cheap, and it avoids the hassles of not having a domain.

The .badger domain won't work off your network, of course, and - if you 
want to actually make use of your new local-bogus-private top-level 
.badger domain - then you can set up DNS on your local network, either 
on OpenVMS or another DNS-capable server.  Get your own registered 
domain.  But for hackery, your .badger TLD will work.


> 
> It makes you use dhcp and i need a static ip for my router

OpenVMS does not work well with DHCP.  Use static HP.



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