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Re: repeat of previous querry
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Levin)
Mon Aug 19 12:27:17 1996
To: Dave Platt <dplatt@iq.tvsoft.com>
cc: Paul Levin <Paul_Levin@postbox.ius.cs.cmu.edu>, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 16 Aug 1996 22:51:37 PDT."
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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 10:41:20 -0400
From: Paul Levin <Paul_Levin@postbox.ius.cs.cmu.edu>
Dave....
Thanks for your reply. My /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf files seem to be
correct (as per your description). When my linux machines are off the
network and only talking to each other, then I believe at least ONE of
those machines has to be able to resolve the hardware addresses given
the ip addresses; the usual network name servers would then be out of
the loop. This is the reason I was considering using an /etc/ethers
file to do this translation, and force the resolution doing an arp -f /etc/ethers
(I take that -- under these conditions -- all the machines will need to
have the name of the machine-which-knows listed in their /etc/hosts file).
BTW, the network is 10Base2, since I can't fit a hub on my robot.
Also, I'm not using bootp (all machines boot themselves).
Can you tell me more about the kernel problems you've referred to? This seems
like the best suggestion about the source of my problems.
Thanks much again for all your help.
Best regards
PDLevin, The Robotics Institute, CMU
