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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-03-09 16:40:49 +0000, <lists at openmailbox.org> said:

> 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.

Use the core settings (1) or All settings (A) in the TCP/IP Services 
TCPIP$CONFIG tool, and enter all of the details requested, and avoid 
trying the DHCP path.

The documentation on the installation and configuration is detailed, 
and available via the TCP/IP Services shelf at the 
<http://www.hp.com/go/openvms/doc> site.

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

Usual approach here is to capture the full run of the configuraion tool 
using your terminal emulator.

> 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)

How to specify that?  Asking that question implies you are probably not 
using the core (1) or All (A) setting in the configuration tool, as 
those prompt for these details.

VMS does not use /etc/resolv.conf, and I'd tend to avoid using the 
local version of /etc/hosts in preference to using a DNS server.  But 
the local equivalent of /etc/hosts is the TCPIP> SET HOST stuff, and 
that does work.  But you do need to configure the resolver through the 
menus (easier to explain) or through the command line.

Again, OpenVMS is not very good at being a DHCP client.  It would not 
surprise me that trying to use VMS as a DHCP client is at the core of 
this mess.

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