[4266] in testers
Hesiod problem on 8.3 machines
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Sun Jun 27 10:47:37 1999
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 10:47:27 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199906271447.KAA126873@antharia.mit.edu>
From: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
To: cfyi@MIT.EDU, sipb-office@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
Cc: ops@MIT.EDU
Some 8.3 machines have been having intermittent Hesiod problems since
ops changed the IP address of suomi, one of the Hesiod servers, as
part of a machine room reorganization Thursday night. (There have been
no reports of 8.2 or earlier machines having problems.)
Symptoms might include:
- Not being able to log in to a machine ("username unknown")
- Being able to log in to a private workstation, but getting a
temporary homedir
- Having "inc" report that you have no mail when you know that you
do.
Current evidence seems to suggest that forcing the machine to resolve
the address of one of the Hesiod servers (eg, "hostinfo apollo") will
fix the problem at least for a while. We're trying to figure out how
to fix it completely.
-- Dan
