Re: [nv-l] netview name lookup

A common area of confusion with the location.conf file gateway entries: you cannot put just any old address in there. The match will be done on the Selection Name that the router ends up with.

Cordially,

Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Detroit

"Christopher J Petrina" <cjp8 AT meadwestvaco DOT com>
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12/22/2003 09:29 AM
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This is how I would figure it did the Name resolution. HOwever with Netview running on an AIX box, my UNIX guru's have come to tell me that name resolution is only done via a DNS server from AIX. AIX cannot be configured to use the /etc/hosts file for resolution. We ahve a DNS server that it attaches to. And your answer is what I was looking for

Thank you
Chris Petrina

Jane Curry <jane.curry AT skills-1st.co DOT uk>
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12/20/2003 06:57 AM
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NetView himself has no name-to-address resolution mechanism - he uses
whatever the host Operating System uses. That is, if all you have is a
hosts file with the NetView box in it, everything else will have IP
addresses as labels. It is strongly recommended that you have a
reliable DNS employed by the NetView system (preferably with the NetView
system acting as a caching / secondary DNS server).

Cheers,
Jane

Christopher J Petrina wrote:

>
> how does netview look attempt to determine the name of a device.
> i.e. in my location.conf file I am using names in place of IP
> addresses for my gateways. How does Netview resolve the name on a AIX
> box?

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