[Info-vax] Alpha vms Tcpip questions

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In article <jvi0m2$fjd$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>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.

That's the HP that's not going anywhere?

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