DNS error message

[Norman England]

I have a few systems that give me the following error whenever I use any of the remore commands such as rcp and rlogin:


rlogind: Host address mismatch..


I know it's going to be something simple, so wail away. On another note all of these servers did not have DNS enabled before, and I enabled it by creating a script. This script worked on other HP machines that don't give me an error. I'm more of a Sun guru so Please help. thx

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

need to make an entry in /etc/.rlogin for your account in the system to which you are logging in remotrly

[Edward Alfert_2]

what happens if you use nslookup on both machines from both machines.

do both sets of answers match?

[Sanjay_6 · Accepted solution]

Hi Norman,

Do a "nslookup" and set swtrace on and see how the system resolves the remote server name and address, proceeed like this

# nslookup
> set swtrace
> Server_name
> Serve_ip

>exit

This should show how your system is resolving names and where is the conflict.

Hope this helps.

thanks

[Norman England]

When I do a nslookup on either machine I get the same information. They both look at the DNS server. I can ping and telnet. The system has the user added to the .rhosts file. (there are only 2 accounts on these boxes, mine and root)

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Norman,

Try the remsh with the ip of the remote server and see if it works.

Thanks

[Norman England]

Of course the simple answers always stump you. These machines have duplicate DNS entries for them. I will contact the DNS admin and get them removed. Thanks all