[Info-vax] duplicated DNS domain name (was: Re: stupid network tricks)

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Hi,

On Mon, 9 Mar 2015 09:23:36 -0700 (PDT)
BillPedersen via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:
> Do you have the log of the last run of the TCPIP$CONFIG?  It would be
> interesting to see what happened there.

I went through TCPIP$CONFIG several times just now and I don't know which
one(s) would be worth looking at.

If you can tell me the name of the file and where to find it I will try to
paste it here after sanitizing.

> How did you specify the host hame when you set up TCPIP?  Did you do it
> as a fully qualified name or as just the host name for the interface did
> you?  This should just be the host name without the domain name.

For the domain name I used example.com at first and then changed it after
reading the replies to example.com. (with a trailing .)

For the node name I specified only mynode.

I think it was Paul Sture's suggestion to clear out the tcp/ip config and
start over again. I can do that but if it is something I'm doing wrong I
will probably do it again since I've been through the config many times
already and see nothing obvious to my untrained VMS eye.

How/where should DNS server names be specified? It appears on UNIX the DHCP
client code sets up resolv.conf from info the DHCP server sends. That
didn't seem to happen on OpenVMS because I could not resolve any external
names until I pointed BIND at my router (which is anyway not a BIND server
but does resolve names)

Thanks.