[2531] in Athena Bugs
Re: [Shyh-Hua . Jao: A bug with <--(please put the name of the program here)]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sat Jul 8 14:46:31 1989
From: <probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 89 14:46:05 -0400
To: ilham@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: hotline@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Ilhamuddin Ahmed's message of Sat, 8 Jul 89 07:34:27 -0400,
Reply-To: Richard Basch <probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
> >From the sounds of the bug-report, it seems like someone has tampered
> probe> with the machine's hostname and it no longer matches its IP address...
> probe> I don't know what else they may have done, so I would recommend a
> probe> re-install.
> Not true ... the hesiod server (SUOMI) was down at the time and
> therefore could not resolve 'athenadoc' or anything else for that matter
> unless it was already cached in the named of the local workstation.
Ok, so what happened to the other Hesiod servers? If one goes, the
others should be taking its place. What you are saying is that none of
the three were reachable... The only time that I can think of where
there may be some confusion is during the database reload on suomi (15
minutes?).
Also, if the user has noticed that the "machine name" label on that
workstation does not match the machine name, I tend to wonder if someone
has tampered with the workstation; I have seen this before in a cluster
where someone played with the hostname of one of the workstations in
building 66 and messed up (the workstation was then scrod and left for
dead, but never reported for THREE months -- cluster patrol would never
have seen a problem since it had the normal "Hit any key to start"
prompt). It still may be a good idea to do a reload of this other
workstation if the user is correct in that assessment.
-Richard
