| Title: | DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT. |
| Notice: | Use IPMT for problems. Newsletter location in note 6187 |
| Moderator: | TAEC::BEROUD |
| Created: | Mon Aug 21 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Jun 04 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 6497 |
| Total number of notes: | 27359 |
I have a customer that was experiencing a somewhat strange problem that
he says is related to DNS. Everytime he would log into the system and
bring up his maps, seems as though each time things would change..ie..
the maps would be there one time and not the next. He was working with
our folks in Colorado and the conclusion was that there was another
system on his network in another location (state), that had DECmcc
running, and was built with the same distribution as his system. ( Both
systems are NETsupport systems built with the same cdrom distribution
disk). So DNS was setup the same on both systems. When he had the other
system shutdown the problem went away. Can anyone tell me how to avoid
this problem. What in DNS can be changed on one of these systems to
avoid this conflict, and can this be done easily ? The customer does
not know very much about DNS but wants to make the changes himself.
Can anyone provide some help......Thanks......
d.j.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 2434.1 | reinstall DNS | CLARID::HOFSTEE | Take a RISC, buy a VAX | Thu Feb 27 1992 08:02 | 8 |
We had the same problem some time ago (note 1221). Basically what it comes down to is that you have to reinstall DNS. Be carefull to NOT delete ALL DNS files, since some of them (I don't remember which ones) come with VMS. There are some notes in this notesfile about reinstalling DNS. (SH KEY DNS/FULL). Timo | |||||
| 2434.2 | Some Suggestions | TOOK::R_SPENCE | Nets don't fail me now... | Tue Mar 10 1992 11:16 | 27 |
What is more likely is that you are not always finding the MAP files.
When DECmcc is installed the definition for MCC_MAPS points to your
current default directory. If you do not always take care to be
set default to the same place when you start up DECmcc then you may
get strange results when the system opens a domain and looks for the
map files.
I suggest redefining MCC_MAPS to point EXACTLY where you expect the
map files to be located.
I suggest you create a directory to be used exclusivly for map files
and either redefine MCC_MAPS in the system startup after DECmcc
startups have completed (be sure to DEFINE/SYSTEM/EXEC), or put
a definition in SYLOGIN.COM, or, in LOGIN.COM if only one user logs in.
re; .1
By all means be careful reinstalling DNS. If you don't know how it is
done, DO NOT invent it!!! Most files with the prefix DNS$ are part
of VMS and must not be deleted.
Look at
NETS::USER$NETS:[MCC011.S-KIT]DNS_REINSTALL.TXT
for the details on what TO do.
s/rob
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