TCPIP_ECO-V0504-156-4 AXP

[Alex Lundie]

I have tried this on VMS 7.3-2 and 7.3-1 on both its seems to lose the ability to Telnet to other hosts although it can see them with Ftp and act as a telnet host.

Unfortunately we don't have any support arangement and I was evaluation the patch to check if it should be installed on customers machines.

Has anyone else noticed this problem or is it due to the some other patch being missed.

Alex Lundie

[Ian Miller.]

I have this patch on VMS V7.3-2 and its ok.
What exactly happens when you telnet ?

[Alex Lundie]

Thank for such a quick reponse.I have been a bit disorganised and lost the actual error but when I telnetted from the Alpha to another VMS alpha I got an immeadiate error of unknown host even though I could reach the other Alpha via FTP.
Having heard that it does work Ok I will reset up the system and gather further information.

Alex Lunndie

[Steven Schweda]

No obvious problems here either with:

alp $ tcpip show version

HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Alpha Version V5.4 - ECO 6
on a COMPAQ Professional Workstation XP1000 running OpenVMS V7.3-2


If it's still bad for you, is the problem host
name in the local hosts data base ("TCPIP
SHOW HOST /LOCAL") or in the DNS somewhere?
Who/what is your DNS server? (What does
"nslookup" say about the problem host?)

[Peter Barkas]

There is another thread that may be relevant.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1057983

[Peter Barkas · Accepted solution]

If you look in the above mentioned thread you will see that it appears that a problem has been identified in the bind resolver code and a non-supported workaround is suggested. Thanks to Stephen Conway.

[Alex Lundie]

Thanks Peter

The link was exactly what I was looking for.

The problem I have is almost identical to Stefan Risch's.

So hopefully the suggested fix from Stephen Conway will work.

Unfortunately this is a fix required for a customers machine and I am not sure when I will be able to recreate the test environment.

Thanks for your help; I had begun to think I had done something silly with the patch installation.

Thanks for your help

Alex

[Alex Lundie]

I have found a probable solution in that the thread Peter Barkas started and brought to my attention show a solution and other systems having the same problem.

Alex Lundie

[Peter Barkas]

Apparently there is an updated ECO 6 available.

[SANJAY MUNDHRA]

I had a similiar problem and have recieved a customized pathc from VMS L2 support for ECO6. I have yet to test it at my customer site.

Cheers,
Sanjay Mundhra
HP-Singapore