[Info-vax] Abnormal DECNET proxy behaviour

Robert A. Brooks FIRST.LAST at vmssoftware.com
Fri Jan 22 12:44:19 EST 2021


On 1/22/2021 12:10 PM, Marc Van Dyck wrote:
> Answering to myself - in case anyone else would get into the same
> problem.
> 
> The following incantation did the trick - don't ask me why/how.
> 
> $ MCR NCL SET SESSION CONTROL NAMING SEARCH PATH {}
> $ MCR NCL FLUSH SESSION CONTROL NAMING CACHE ENTRY “*”
> $ MCR AUTHORIZE REMOVE/PROXY NODE1.VMS.MYCOMPANY.COM::USER1
> $ MCR NCL DO SYS$MANAGER:NET$SEARCHPATH_STARTUP.NCL
> 
> With all my thanks to VSI support.

A caveat with that above process . . .

When the naming search path is cleared, outgoing connections may fail due to not being able to translate
the target node’s name to an address so you will want to do this during off or low usage hours.
The process below should be pretty quick though.

-- 

                       -- Rob



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