reamd AT Nationwide DOT com writes:

> Hi All,
>           7.1.3 on AIX 5.1...  Im trying to get netview to use the
> /etc/hosts for name resolution with no success..  I have removed the
> etc/resolv.conf which resulted in netview not allowing me to test ping,
> demand poll, ect...  I get the same result if I just comment out the
> nameserver line. Any suggestions?

Later, David wrote:
> Currenty in etc/hosts as follows:
> IP ADDRESS           hostname   hostname.domain.name
> 
> I can ping both short and long names and Ip address
> I can also snmpwalk it....


Is the issue that the ping and demand poll options in the NetView GUI
are usable/available to you?     If so, it could be a map isue in
which the map doesn't think it's  a device that can be pinged or
demand polled.  I could imagine this happening if name resolution
returned something one way, and then when you fired up DNS, the
resolved name came back differently and confused the topology
database. 

Without further info, I'd suggest deleting the node and rediscovering
it with the name resolution set the way you want it. 

Best Regards, 
-- 
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/

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