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[robert70]

DAVE$ tcpip show version

HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Alpha Version V5.4 - ECO 6
on a COMPAQ AlphaServer DS20E 666 MHz running OpenVMS V7.3-2


version the server is now at - if this helps

[Hoff · Accepted solution]

This is one of the "surprises" that's listed in the associated documentation. Here, you have old-style configuration files. AFAIK, this detail is included in the release notes for the kit.

Here's another discussion with some related details:

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1050353

[Steven Schweda]

> HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Alpha Version V5.4 - ECO 6

Why not ECO 7?

> You may have a old style configuration file. Please follow the
> instructions in the release notes to use the new configuration
> files.

> any clues?

Wasn't that message a clue?

[robert70]

many thanks to all helpful replies
working now

[robert70]

particular thanks to Hoff and Duncan
Cheers guys
Appreciated

[robert70]

actually there still seems to be a problem as It looks like my HOSTS are being mapped properly?
TCPIP>show host

Host address Host name

129.94.185.45 CHAS.chasdomain, CHAS.CHASDOMAIN, CHAS
128.31.20.195 CSL195-SV.UK.HIBM.HSBC, CSL195.UK.HIBM.HSBC
129.94.185.46 DAVE

TCPIP> ping dave
ping: unknown host dave
%SYSTEM-F-UNREACHABLE, remote node is not currently reachable

this seems to have happened since my eco kit upgrade.

[Hoff]

What's shown looks like site-local cruft, and not anything that's "correct" in the public areas of the Internet. Those IP addresses are also allocated to unsw.edu.au and mit.edu, which is also typically bogus. (Guessing around why these bogus values are used here: if you're going to mask your public DNS and IP addresses - which just serves to waste my time here, in all bluntness - use one of the private subnet blocks and use example.com and example.net and such reserved for this "bogus" usage by the RFC 2606.)

Here's a review of the terms and concepts and construction:

http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/275

Here, fix your static hosts settings, and also configure your DNS forwarder.

Details on the required DNS configuration steps in TCPIP$CONFIG and on the TCPIP utility's SET HOST and SET NOHOST commands used for the OpenVMS analog of /etc/hosts file are in the TCP/IP Services management manuals.

[robert70]

thanks