[Info-vax] Changing SMTP server presented hostname in UCX

[Paul Sture]

On 2014-09-08, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>
> There's clearly something in the core components section I had missed
> so please can you point me to the correct option in TCPIP$CONFIG to
> directly change the hostname (not the domain) in the configuration
> databases ? Thanks. (Of everything I've done with VMS, I've never
> had to actually change the TCP/IP hostname of an existing production
> VMS machine.)

The hostname (i.e. node name) certainly used to be in the Interfaces
section.

I have an ancient (Jan-2001) example of the dialogue here.  Be warned,
the various questions and answers within TCPIP$CONFIG *have* changed since
then.

<http://openvms.sture.ch/tcpip_config_partial.txt>

FWIW back at the turn of the century there was a set of circumstances
where things could get out of step internally and the only way short of
deleting the config and starting from scratch was to knobble the file
containing the host names.  Because it was an indexed file you had
to generate the FDL, edit, convert back to indexed.  The icing on the
cake was that you needed to rename the result to version ;1 before
restarting TCP/IP



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