ssh to short name

[ROSS HANSON]

I have T1471AA Ver. 4.7 set up on a HP UX 9000 running HPUX 11.23.
When I am on the box described above and I
ssh root@ShortNameBox the cursor just sits there for the longest time and maybe it will and maybe it will not connect.

If I do the same thing but use the FQDN I am connected in milliseconds. We do use dns here so
what do I look at to use the short name the same way as the FQDN??

P.S. This thread has been moved from Communications, Wireless (Legacy ITRC forum) to HP-UX > networking. -HP Forum Moderator

[Alan_152]

Not sure about HPUX, but with most *nix in the file "/etc/resolv.conf" you can put in a search parameter with your domain information. It will combine the short name with the domain to do a FQDN lookup.

http://linux.die.net/man/5/resolv.conf

[Bob_Vance]

See my post at

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1311413

it may help.

tks
bv